Diophantine exponents of lattices (Q2399702)

The author notes two classical techniques to measure the ``size'' of the \(n\)-tuple \((l_1(\mathbf z), l_2(\mathbf z), \dots , l_n(\mathbf z))\), where \(\mathbf z\) ranges through non-zero integer points and \( l_i (\mathbf z)\) (here \(i=1,\ldots, n)\) are linearly independent linear forms in \(d\) real variables, \(n< d\). The cases when \(d< n\) and \(d=n\) are considered. A definition of the Diophantine exponent is given. First, a notion of the Diophantine exponent \(\omega (\Lambda)\) of a lattice \(\Lambda\) is defined and two corollaries of Schmidt's subspace theorem are proved. Second, the attention is given to the transference theorem, i.e, statements connecting \(\omega(\Lambda)\) and \(\omega(\Lambda^{*})\), where \(\Lambda^{*}\) is a dual lattice. This theorem is proved by the concept of a pseudo-compound parallelepiped and by a general transference theorem. Third, Section 4 of this paper is devoted to the problem on a subset of \((\mathbb R \cup \{\infty\})^2\) formed by the pairs \((\omega(\Lambda), \omega(\Lambda^{*}))\) if \(\Lambda\) runs through the space of lattices in \(\mathbb R^d\). In this paper, the investigations are described in combination with a brief survey and with an indication of open problems.