On metric Diophantine approximation in matrices and Lie groups (Q2338967)

In this note, the authors announce few remarkable results concerning the Diophantine exponent of analytic submanifolds of \(m\times n\) real matrices. In particular, a family of algebraic obstructions to the extremality of such manifolds is identified and for an algebraic submanifold defined over \(\mathbb Q\) a formula for the exponent is also given. Subsequently, these results are applied to the determination of the Diophantine exponent of rational nilpotent Lie groups. This paper also affirmatively answers a question raised by \textit{V. Beresnevich, D. Kleinbock} and \textit{G. Margulis} in \(\S 7.2\) of [``Non-planarity and metric Diophantine approximation for systems of linear forms'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1302.6560}].