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A problem of Hooley in Diophantine approximation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Glyn Harman
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School of Mathematics, 23 Senghennydd Road, P.O. Box 926, Cardiff CF2 4YH, Wales, E-Mail: Harman@cf.ac.nk
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In [5] Professor Hooley announced without proof the following result which is a variant of well-known work by Heilbronn [4]and Danicic [3] (see [1]).

Let k≥2 be an integer, b a fixed non-zero integer, and a an irrational real number. Then, for any ɛ> 0, there are infinitely many solutions to the inequality

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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1996

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