Rational approximation with chosen numerators

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAF355MaRDI QIDQ6881053zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Manuel Hauke, E. Kowalski

Publication date 18 December 2025

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/IMRN/RNAF355

zbMATH Keywords

Diophantine approximation with prime denominatormetric Diophantine approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogeneous approximation to one number (11J04) Inhomogeneous linear forms (11J20) Distribution modulo one (11J71) Metric theory (11J83) Distribution of primes (11N05) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44)

Review text

This paper is concerned with the problem of approximating reals \(x\) by rationals \(a/q\), with the additional requirement that the approximation denominators are restricted to the set of primes. More precisely, the authors study problems such as whether for a given \(c>0\) the inequality \N\[\N\left| x - \frac{a}{p} \right| \leq \frac{c}{p}\N\]\Nhas finitely or infinitely many solutions \((a,p)\), where \(p\) is prime. For this particular problem, they prove that for Lebesgue-almost all \(x\) the answer is positive, and provide an asymptotic order for the number of solutions. Other results in the paper concern Hausdorff dimensions, and results when \(a = a(p)\) are chosen in a specific way such as \(a = \lfloor p^2 \alpha \rfloor\) mod \(p\) for some suitable \(\alpha\).

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