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Additive Diophantine inequalities with mixed powers I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Jörg Brüdern
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Geismar Landstrasse 97, 3400 Göttingen, West Germany.
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In this paper we shall be concerned with the following problem. Let k1k2 ≤…≤ ks be natural numbers, λ1,…, λs be nonzero real numbers, not all of the same sign. Is it then true that the values taken by

at integer points (x1,…, xs) ∈ ℤk are dense on the real line, provided at least one of the ratios λij, is irrational? We shall refer to this, for brevity, as the inequality problem for k1,…, ks. Optimistically one may conjecture that the inequality problem is true whenever

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Copyright © University College London 1987

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