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On well-approximable matrices over a field of formal series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2003

SIMON KRISTENSEN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of York, Heslington, York, YO105DD. e-mail: sk17@york.ac.uk

Abstract

It is a well-known result in Diophantine approximation over the reals that the Lebesgue measure of the elements $x \in {\mathbb{R}}$, such that $\Vert qx \Vert < {1}/{q^v}$ for infinitely many $q \in {\mathbb{R}}$, is full for $v \leq 1$ and null otherwise, where $\Vert\cdot\Vert$ denotes the distance to nearest integer. Also, the Hausdorff dimension of the set of these numbers is known to be ${2}({v\,{+}\,1})$ for $v > 1$. Similar results are known for matrices over the reals as well as the $p$-adics. In this paper, we prove the corresponding multi-dimensional result for matrices over the field of Laurent series with coefficients from a given finite field.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2003 Cambridge Philosophical Society

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