Two estimates concerning classical diophantine approximation constants

DOI10.5486/PMD.2013.5763MaRDI QIDQ2875443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johannes Schleischitz

Publication date 14 August 2014

Published in Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3322

zbMATH Keywords

approximation constantsconvex geometryDiophantine approximationlattices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Simultaneous homogeneous approximation, linear forms (11J13)

Abstract: In this paper we aim to prove two inequalities involving the classical approximation constants $w_n^{prime}(zeta),hat{w}_n^{prime}(zeta)$ that stem from the simultaneous approximation problem $|zet{a}^{j}x-y_j|$, $1leqjleqn$, on the one side and the constants $w_n^{ast}(zeta),hat{w}_n^{ast}(zeta)$ connected to approximation with algebraic numbers of degree $leqn$ on the other side. We concretely prove $w_n^{ast}(zeta)hat{w}_n^{prime}(zeta)geq1$ and $hat{w}_n^{ast}(zeta)w_n^{prime}(zeta)geq1$. The first result is due to W. Schmidt, however our method of proving it allows to derive the other inequality as a dual result. Finally we will discuss estimates of $w_n^{ast}(zeta),hat{w}_n^{ast}(zeta)$ uniformly in $zeta$ depending only on $n$ as an application.

Review text

The author investigates classical approximation constants concerning simultaneous diophantine approximation \(| \zeta^j x - y_j | \) with \(1 \leq j \leq n\), and concerning approximation with algebraic numbers of degree \(\leq n\). The paper contains new proofs of classical results of \textit{H. Davenport} and \textit{W. M. Schmidt} [Acta Arith. 15, 393--416 (1969; Zbl 0186.08603)] based on interesting geometric estimates. Furthermore, the author observes a certain uniformity of the bounds with respect to \(\zeta\).

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