Approximation by random fractions

arXiv1909.07256MaRDI QIDQ6325392FDOQ6325392

Publication date: 16 September 2019

Abstract: We study approximation in the unit interval by rational numbers whose numerators are selected randomly with certain probabilities. Previous work showed that an analogue of Khintchine's Theorem holds in a similar random model and raised the question of when the monotonicity assumption can be removed. Informally speaking, we show that if the probabilities in our model decay sufficiently fast as the denominator increases, then a Khintchine-like statement holds without a monotonicity assumption. Although our rate of decay of probabilities is unlikely to be optimal, it is known that such a result would not hold if the probabilities did not decay at all.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric theory (11J83) Diophantine approximation in probabilistic number theory (11K60)

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