Diophantine approximation with prime denominator in real quadratic function fields

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Abstract: In the thirties of the last century, I. M. Vinogradov proved that the inequality ||palpha||lep1/5+varepsilon has infinitely prime solutions p, where ||.|| denotes the distance to a nearest integer. This result has subsequently been improved by many authors. In particular, Vaughan (1978) replaced the exponent 1/5 by 1/4 using his celebrated identity for the von Mangoldt function and a refinement of Fourier analytic arguments. The current record is due to Matom"aki (2009) who showed the infinitude of prime solutions of the inequality ||palpha||lep1/3+varepsilon. This exponent 1/3 is considered the limit of the current technology. Recently, in cite{BaMo}, the authors established an analogue of Matom"aki's result for imaginary quadratic extensions of the function field k=mathbbFq(T). In this paper, we consider the case of real quadratic extensions of k of class number 1, for which we prove a function field analogue of Vaughan's above-mentioned result (exponent heta=1/4). Our method uses versions of Vaughan's identity and the Dirichlet approximation theorem for function fields. The latter was established by Arijit Ganguly in the appendix to our previous paper cite{BaMo} on the imaginary quadratic case. We also simplify arguments in the paper cite{BM} on the same problem for real quadratic number fields by D. Mazumder and the first-named author.









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