The Duffin--Schaeffer conjecture for systems of linear forms

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12909MaRDI QIDQ6417658zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Felipe A. Ramírez

Publication date 17 November 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.12909

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simultaneous homogeneous approximation, linear forms (11J13) Metric theory (11J83) Diophantine approximation in probabilistic number theory (11K60)

Abstract: We extend the Duffin--Schaeffer conjecture to the setting of systems of $m$ linear forms in $n$ variables. That is, we establish a criterion to determine whether, for a given rate of approximation, almost all or almost no $n$-by-$m$ systems of linear forms are approximable at that rate using integer vectors satisfying a natural coprimality condition. When $m=n=1$, this is the classical 1941 Duffin--Schaeffer conjecture, which was proved in 2020 by Koukoulopoulos and Maynard. Pollington and Vaughan proved the higher-dimensional version, where $m>1$ and $n=1$, in 1990. The general statement we prove here was conjectured in 2009 by Beresnevich, Bernik, Dodson, and Velani. For approximations with no coprimality requirement, they also conjectured a generalized version of Catlin's conjecture, and in 2010 Beresnevich and Velani proved the $m>1$ cases of that. Catlin's classical conjecture, where $m=n=1$, follows from the classical Duffin--Schaeffer conjecture. The remaining cases of the generalized version, where $m=1$ and $n>1$, follow from our main result. Finally, through the Mass Transference Principle, our main results imply their Hausdorff measure analogues, which were also conjectured by Beresnevich emph{et al} (2009).

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