On a problem related to ``second best approximations to a real number

Abstract: For a given irrational number

a l p h a

one can define an irrationality measure function

p s i_{a l p h a}^{[2]} (t) = m i n l i m i t s_{s u b s t a c k (q, p) c o l o n q, p i n m a t h b b Z, 1 l e q s l a n t q l e q s l a n t t, (p, q) e q (p_{n}, q_{n}) f o r a l l n i n m a t h b b Z_{+}} | q a l p h a - p |

, related to the second-best approximations to

a l p h a

. In 2017 Moshchevitin studied the corresponding Diophantine constant

m a t h f r a k k (a l p h a) = l i m i n f l i m i t s_{t o i n f t y} t c d o t p s i_{a l p h a}^{[2]} (t)

and the corresponding spectrum

m a t h b b L_{2} = l a m b d a | e x i s t s a l p h a i n m a t h b b R s e t m i n u s Q c o l o n l a m b d a = m a t h f r a k k (a l p h a)

. In particular, he calculated two largest elements of the spectrum

m a t h b b L_{2}

. In the present paper we calculate the value for the third element of the spectrum

m a t h b b L_{2}

.

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