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Simultaneous rational approximations and related diophantine equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John H. Rickert
John H. Rickert
Affiliation:
The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana 47803, U.S.A.
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Abstract

In this paper we shall consider simultaneous approximations to algebraic numbers of the form for rational t1, …, tm, v. If t1, …, tm, are sufficiently close to 1 with respect to a common denominator we shall derive an effective inequality of the form max {|θ1 – p1 / q|, …, |θm – pm / q|} > cq–1–λ for all integers p1, …, pm, q with q > 0. The technique is used to derive the inequality

We use this to show that the only solution to the simultaneous equations

are the trivial ones.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 113 , Issue 3 , May 1993 , pp. 461 - 472
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1993

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