Uniform Diophantine approximation and best approximation polynomials

DOI10.4064/AA170901-4-7zbMATH Open1473.11141arXiv1709.00499OpenAlexW2963809034WikidataQ129426733 ScholiaQ129426733MaRDI QIDQ4963285FDOQ4963285

Authors: Johannes Schleischitz 

Publication date: 1 November 2018

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $zeta$ be a real transcendental number. We introduce a new method to find upper bounds for the classical exponent $widehat{w}_n(zeta)$ concerning uniform polynomial approximation. Our method is based on the parametric geometry of numbers introduced by Schmidt and Summerer, and transference of the original approximation problem in dimension $n$ to suitable higher dimensions. For large $n$, we can provide an unconditional bound of order $widehat{w}_n(zeta)leq2n-2+o(1)$. While this improves the bound of order $2n-frac32+o(1)$ due to Bugeaud and the author, it is unfortunately slightly weaker than what can be obtained when incorporating a recently proved conjecture of Schmidt and Summerer. However, the method also enables us to establish significantly stronger conditional bound upon a certain presumably weak assumption on the structure of the best approximation polynomials. Thereby we provide serious evidence that the exponent should be reasonably smaller than the known upper bounds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00499

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zbMATH Keywords

successive minimageometry of numbersuniform approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simultaneous homogeneous approximation, linear forms (11J13) Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06)

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