The metric theory of p-adic approximation

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNP114zbMATH Open1246.11132arXiv0907.0141OpenAlexW2963182460MaRDI QIDQ3402267FDOQ3402267

Authors: Alan Haynes 

Publication date: 2 February 2010

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Metric Diophantine approximation in its classical form is the study of how well almost all real numbers can be approximated by rationals. There is a long history of results which give partial answers to this problem, but there are still questions which remain unknown. The Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture is an attempt to answer all of these questions in full, and it has withstood more than fifty years of mathematical investigation. In this paper we establish a strong connection between the Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture and its p-adic analogue. Our main theorems are transfer principles which allow us to go back and forth between these two problems. We prove that if the variance method from probability theory can be used to solve the p-adic Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture for even one prime p, then almost the entire classical Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture would follow. Conversely if the variance method can be used to prove the classical conjecture then the p-adic conjecture is true for all primes. Furthermore we are able to unconditionally and completely establish the higher dimensional analogue of this conjecture in which we allow simultaneous approximation in any finite number and combination of real and p-adic fields, as long as the total number of fields involved is greater than one. Finally by using a mass transference principle for Hausdorff measures we are able to extend all of our results to their corresponding analogues with Haar measures replaced by the Hausdorff measures associated with arbitrary dimension functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0141

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zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-adic approximationmetric theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation in non-Archimedean valuations (11J61) Metric theory (11J83)

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