On the theory of diophantine approximations. II (inhomogeneous problems)
On the theory of diophantine approximations. II (inhomogeneous problems)
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关于丢番图近似理论。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02023874
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发表时间:
1958
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通讯作者:
V. Sós
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作者:
V. Sós
The one-dimensional homogeneous problems of diophantine approximations have a unified treatment by the algorithm of continued fractions. It is possible to give such a geometrical interpretation of convergents and by-denominators (Nebennenner) of continued fractions, which can be extended for the inhomogeneous case, and so it furnishes a parallel treatment of these cases. In this way, eg, it is possible to prove some simple theorems of Borel type for the inhomogeneous case, to get new lower and upper bounds for the Khintchine constant c defined by c= inf sup inf xlax--~--y I. a~ x> O, y integersThis last result will be treated in [5] and [6]. A similar algorithm, as we give in this paper for the inhomogeneous, case, is given in an arithmetical way by JWS CASSELS [1] and used also by R. DESCOMBES [2]. A comparison of both treatments is made in footnoteS. In {} 2 we give this geometrical interpretation of continued fractio, ns for an irrational a and the corresponding algorithm for the inhomogeneous case giving a sequence of multipla s,,(i: r which corresponds to the sequence of convergents and by-denominators of continued fractions, and further a sequence of pairs of multipla qj,,(r qf~(5) which is a subsequence of s~(r and corresponds to the sequence of convergents qj~ of a. In {} 3 we give the proof of some simple theorems of Borel type corresponding to the inhomogeneous case. We call these theorems Borel type, since BOReL sharpened HURWITZ'S theorem to the effect that the inequality