On the topology of Diophantine approximation spectra

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Abstract: Fix an integer nge2. To each non-zero point mathbfu in mathbbRn, one attaches several numbers called exponents of Diophantine approximation. However, as Khintchine first observed, these numbers are not independent of each other. This raises the problem of describing the set of all possible values that a given family of exponents can take by varying the point mathbfu. To avoid trivialities, one restricts to points mathbfu whose coordinates are linearly independent over mathbbQ. The resulting set of values is called the spectrum of these exponents. We show that, in an appropriate setting, any such spectrum is a compact connected set. In the case n=3, we prove moreover that it is a semi-algebraic set closed under component-wise minimum. For n=3, we also obtain a description of the spectrum of a family of six exponents recently introduced by Schmidt and Summerer.









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