The Conjugate Property of the Borel Theorem on Diophantine Approximation.
We study the function , where θ is a positive real number, ⌊·⌋ and · are the floor and fractional part functions, respectively. Nathanson proved, among other properties of , that if log θ is rational, then for all but finitely many positive integers n, . We extend this by showing that, without any condition on θ, all but a zero-density set of integers n satisfy . Using a metric result of Schmidt, we show that almost all θ have asymptotically (log θ log x)/12 exceptional n ≤ x. Using continued...
In the 1990s, J.C. Tong gave a sharp upper bound on the minimum of consecutive approximation constants for the nearest integer continued fractions. We generalize this to the case of approximation by Rosen continued fraction expansions. The Rosen fractions are an infinite set of continued fraction algorithms, each giving expansions of real numbers in terms of certain algebraic integers. For each, we give a best possible upper bound for the minimum in appropriate consecutive blocks of approximation...
We give the first transcendence results for the Rosen continued fractions. Introduced over half a century ago, these fractions expand real numbers in terms of certain algebraic numbers.
In this paper we discuss two theorems on meromorphic functions of Nikishin and Chudnovsky. Our purpose is to show, how to derive some well-known but not obvious results on irrationality in a systematic and simple way from properties of meromorphic functions with arithmetic conditions. As far as it stands, we have no new results on irrationality, to the contrary some results on numbers of the corollaries are known already since a long time to be transcendental (cf. [4], [9] and [10]). Our main intention...