Uniform Diophantine approximation and best approximation polynomials

DOI10.4064/AA170901-4-7MaRDI QIDQ4963285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Johannes Schleischitz

Publication date 1 November 2018

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

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