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An inhomogeneous Dirichlet theorem via shrinking targets

Part of: Diophantine approximation, transcendental number theory Ergodic theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2019

Dmitry Kleinbock  and
Nick Wadleigh
Dmitry Kleinbock
Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA email kleinboc@brandeis.edu
Nick Wadleigh
Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA email wadleigh@brandeis.edu
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Abstract

We give an integrability criterion on a real-valued non-increasing function $\unicode[STIX]{x1D713}$ guaranteeing that for almost all (or almost no) pairs $(A,\mathbf{b})$, where $A$ is a real $m\times n$ matrix and $\mathbf{b}\in \mathbb{R}^{m}$, the system

$$\begin{eqnarray}\Vert A\mathbf{q}+\mathbf{b}-\mathbf{p}\Vert ^{m}<\unicode[STIX]{x1D713}(T),\quad \Vert \mathbf{q}\Vert ^{n}<T,\end{eqnarray}$$
is solvable in $\mathbf{p}\in \mathbb{Z}^{m}$, $\mathbf{q}\in \mathbb{Z}^{n}$ for all sufficiently large $T$. The proof consists of a reduction to a shrinking target problem on the space of grids in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$. We also comment on the homogeneous counterpart to this problem, whose $m=n=1$ case was recently solved, but whose general case remains open.

Keywords

Dirichlet’s theoreminhomogeneous Diophantine approximationspace of gridsshrinking targetsexponential mixing

MSC classification

Primary: 11J20: Inhomogeneous linear forms
Secondary: 11J13: Simultaneous homogeneous approximation, linear forms 37A17: Homogeneous flows

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Research Article
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Compositio Mathematica , Volume 155 , Issue 7 , July 2019 , pp. 1402 - 1423
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© The Authors 2019 

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Footnotes

The first-named author was supported by NSF grants DMS-1101320 and DMS-1600814.

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