Diophantine approximation with prime restriction in function fields

Authors Stephan Baier, Esrafil Ali Molla, with an appendix by Arijit Ganguly

Publication date 30 September 2021

Diophantine inequalities (11J25) Distribution modulo one (11J71) Sums over primes (11L20) Estimates on character sums (11L40) Zeta and (L)-functions in characteristic (p) (11M38) Distribution of primes (11N05) Primes in congruence classes (11N13) Distribution of prime ideals (11R44) Zeta functions and (L)-functions of function fields (11R59)

Abstract: In the thirties of the last century, I. M. Vinogradov established uniform distribution modulo 1 of the sequence

p a l p h a

when

a l p h a

is a fixed irrational real number and

p

runs over the primes. In particular, he showed that the inequality

| | p a l p h a | | l e p^{- 1 / 5 + v a r e p s i l o n}

has infinitely prime solutions

p

, where

| | . | |

denotes the distance to the nearest integer. This result has subsequently been improved by many authors. The current record is due to Matom"aki (2009) who showed the infinitude of prime solutions of the inequality

| | p a l p h a | | l e p^{- 1 / 3 + v a r e p s i l o n}

. This exponent

1 / 3

is considered the limit of the current technology. We prove function field analogues of this result for the fields

k = m a t h b b F_{q} (T)

and imaginary quadratic extensions

K

of

k

. Essential in our method is the Dirichlet approximation theorem for function fields which is established in general form in the appendix authored by Arijit Ganguly.

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