The Minkowski chain and Diophantine approximation

DOI10.5802/JTNB.1132MaRDI QIDQ2211029zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nickolas Andersen, W. Duke

Publication date 10 November 2020

Published in Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06157

zbMATH Keywords

Diophantine approximationMinkowski chain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simultaneous homogeneous approximation, linear forms (11J13) Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70)

Abstract: The Hurwitz chain gives a sequence of pairs of Farey approximations to an irrational real number. Minkowski gave a criterion for a number to be algebraic by using a certain generalization of the Hurwitz chain. We apply Minkowski's generalization (the Minkowski chain) to give criteria for a real linear form to be either badly approximable or singular. We also give a variant of Dirichlet's approximation theorem for a real linear form that produces a whole basis of approximating integral vectors rather than a single one. This result holds if and only if the form is badly approximable. The proofs rely on properties of successive minima and reduced bases of lattices.

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