Estimating the critical determinants of a class of three-dimensional star bodies

Werner Georg Nowak

Communications in Mathematics (2017)

  • Volume: 25, Issue: 2, page 149-157
  • ISSN: 1804-1388

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In the problem of (simultaneous) Diophantine approximation in  ℝ 3 (in the spirit of Hurwitz’s theorem), lower bounds for the critical determinant of the special three-dimensional body K 2 : ( y 2 + z 2 ) ( x 2 + y 2 + z 2 ) ≤ 1 play an important role; see [1], [6]. This article deals with estimates from below for the critical determinant Δ ( K c ) of more general star bodies K c : ( y 2 + z 2 ) c / 2 ( x 2 + y 2 + z 2 ) ≤ 1 , where c is any positive constant. These are obtained by inscribing into K c either a double cone, or an ellipsoid, or a double paraboloid, depending on the size of c .

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Nowak, Werner Georg. "Estimating the critical determinants of a class of three-dimensional star bodies." Communications in Mathematics 25.2 (2017): 149-157. <http://eudml.org/doc/294547>.

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abstract = {In the problem of (simultaneous) Diophantine approximation in $\mathbb \{R\}^3$ (in the spirit of Hurwitz’s theorem), lower bounds for the critical determinant of the special three-dimensional body \[ K\_2:\quad (y^2+z^2)(x^2+y^2+z^2)\le 1 \] play an important role; see [1], [6]. This article deals with estimates from below for the critical determinant $\Delta (K_c)$ of more general star bodies \[ K\_c:\quad (y^2+z^2)^\{c/2\}(x^2+y^2+z^2)\le 1, \] where $c$ is any positive constant. These are obtained by inscribing into $K_c$ either a double cone, or an ellipsoid, or a double paraboloid, depending on the size of $c$.},
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