A solution to a problem of Cassels and Diophantine properties of cubic numbers

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2011.173.1.11zbMATH Open1242.11046arXiv0810.4289OpenAlexW2115539286MaRDI QIDQ640747FDOQ640747

Authors: Uri Shapira 

Publication date: 20 October 2011

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that almost any pair of real numbers a,b, satisfies the following inhomogeneous uniform version of Littlewood's conjecture: (*) forall x,y in R, liminf_{|n| oinfty} |n|<na - x> <nb - y> = 0, where <-> denotes the distance from the nearest integer. The existence of even a single pair that satisfies (*), solves a problem of Cassels from the 50's. We then prove that if 1,a,b span a totally real number field, then a,b, satisfy (*). It is further shown that if 1,a,b, are linearly dependent over Q, a,b cannot satisfy (*). The results are then applied to give examples of irregular orbit closures of the diagonal groups of a new type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4289

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zbMATH Keywords

Littlewood conjectureDiophantine approximationsEuclidean minimaunimodular latticescubic numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inhomogeneous linear forms (11J20) Diophantine inequalities (11J25) Homogeneous flows (37A17) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99) Products of linear forms (11H46)

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