Mahler's classification of numbers compared with Koksma's
The Markoff conjecture states that given a positive integer , there is at most one triple of positive integers with that satisfies the equation . The conjecture is known to be true when is a prime power or two times a prime power. We present an elementary proof of this result. We also show that if in the class group of forms of discriminant , every ambiguous form in the principal genus corresponds to a divisor of , then the conjecture is true. As a result, we obtain criteria in terms of...
D'après le théorème de Lévy, les dénominateurs du développement en fraction continue d'un réel croissent presque sûrement à une vitesse au plus exponentielle. Nous étendons cette estimation aux meilleures approximations diophantiennes simultanées de formes linéaires.
Let be the Lucas sequence. We show that the Diophantine equation has only the nonnegative integer solutions , , , , , , where is the th Mersenne number and .