Gauss lattices and complex continued fractions

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2021.V17.N5.A6MaRDI QIDQ2071463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Chevallier Nicolas

Publication date 28 January 2022

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05480

zbMATH Keywords

best Diophantine approximationGaussian integerlattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Homogeneous approximation to one number (11J04) Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70)

Abstract: Our aim is to find a complex continued fraction algorithm finding all the best Diophantine approximations to a complex number. Using the sequence of minimal vectors in a two dimensional lattice over Gaussian integers, we obtain an algorithm defined on a submanifold of the space of unimodular two dimensional Gauss lattices. This submanifold is transverse to the diagonal flow. Thanks to the correspondence between minimal vectors and best Diophantine approximations, the algorithm finds all the best approximations to a complex number. A byproduct of the algorithm is the best constant for the complex version of Dirichlet Theorem about approximations of complex numbers by quotients of Gaussian integers.

Review text

In this paper, the author is introducing a complex continued fraction algorithm and discussing questions of best Diophantine approximations in these settings. In particular the author propose the approximation algorithm defined on a submanifold of the space of unimodular two-dimensional Gauss lattices. The correspondence between the minimal vectors used in the construction of the algorithm on the one hand and the best Diophantine approximations on the other hand legitimate the algorithm. Another outpit of the algorithm is the best constant for the complex version of Dirichlet's theorem on complex number approximation as quotients of two Gaussian integers.

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