In this paper, we refine Borel's 1903 result in Diophantine approximation by providing sharper bounds for the minimum of three consecutive approximation coefficients $\Theta_n(x)$, defined for any real number $x$ with regular continued fraction (RCF) expansion $x=[0;a_1,a_2,\dots]$ as $\Theta_n = q_n^2\left| x-\frac{p_n}{q_n}\right|$. Here $\frac{p_n}{q_n}$ is the $n$th RCF convergent of $x$. Borel's result states that for all (irrational) $x$ and all $n\in\mathbb{N}$, $$ \min \left\{ \Theta_{n-1}(x),\Theta_n(x),\Theta_{n+1}(x)\right\} \leq \frac{1}{\sqrt{5}}. $$ We focus on the situation where $a_{n+1}=1$, since otherwise a result by F.~Bagemihl and J.R.~McLaughlin from 1966 implies that the Borel-bound $1/\sqrt{5}$ can already be improver to $1/\sqrt{8}$.
For fixed $\tau>0$, non-integer $\theta>2$ and large enough $s$, we investigate the number of solutions to the Diophantine inequality $|x_1^{\theta}+\cdots +x_s^{\theta} - R|<\tau$ as $R \to \infty$. Here, we restrict the variables $x_i$ in the ``almost diagonal"range $X-Y<x_i \leq X+Y$ for $i = 1, \ldots, s$, where $X...
Let $\mu$ be a log-concave probability measure on $\mathbb R^n$ and let $f\colon\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R^k$ be a polynomial mapping of degree at most $d$. We show that \[ \mu(f\in A) \le C\bigl(\lambda_k(A)\bigr)^{\frac{1}{k(d-1)+1}} \] for every Borel set $A\subset\mathbb R^k$ whenever the image measure $\mu\circ f^{-1...
Let $P (Y_1, ..., Y_d)$ be a certain fixed homogeneous polynomial of integral coefficients. In this paper, we establish a quantitative equidistribution criterion for the ergodic averages along $\Omega (|P (n_1, ..., n_d)|)$. Consequently, by an estimate of Lachand, we prove the following variant of a theorem of Bergels...
Let $a(n)$ and $b(n)$ be arithmetic sequences, and $$A(s)=\sum_{n\ge1}a(n)n^{-s}, \qquad B(s)=\sum_{n\ge1}b(n)n^{-s},$$ be the two Dirichlet series related by a certain functional equation. Let $m$ be the \emph{analytic degree} of the functional equation. For $x>0$ and a positive integer $N$, Friedlander and Iwaniec (2...
For a real transcendental number $\xi$, let $\omega_n^*(\xi)$ denote the supremum of all $\omega$ for which there exist infinitely many real algebraic numbers $\alpha$ of degree $\leq n$ satisfying $|\xi-\alpha|\leq H(\alpha)^{-\omega -1}$, where $H(\alpha)$ is the naive height of the minimal polynomial of $\alpha$. A...
For every finite family of Euclidean balls in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge2$, and every $0<\delta<1/2$, we select a subfamily whose $(1+\delta)$-dilations cover the original union and whose undilated balls have multiplicity at most $C_n\delta^{-(n-1)/2}$. This proves the covering estimate conjectured by Han and Lu \cite{HL}....
Mayukh Mukherjee· 0 citations
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