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Counting rational points near planar curves

Ayla Gafni (2014)

Acta Arithmetica

We find an asymptotic formula for the number of rational points near planar curves. More precisely, if f:ℝ → ℝ is a sufficiently smooth function defined on the interval [η,ξ], then the number of rational points with denominator no larger than Q that lie within a δ-neighborhood of the graph of f is shown to be asymptotically equivalent to (ξ-η)δQ².

Density of some sequences modulo 1

Artūras Dubickas (2012)

Colloquium Mathematicae

Recently, Cilleruelo, Kumchev, Luca, Rué and Shparlinski proved that for each integer a ≥ 2 the sequence of fractional parts a / n n = 1 is everywhere dense in the interval [0,1]. We prove a similar result for all Pisot numbers and Salem numbers α and show that for each c > 0 and each sufficiently large N, every subinterval of [0,1] of length c N - 0 . 475 contains at least one fractional part Q(αⁿ)/n, where Q is a nonconstant polynomial in ℤ[z] and n is an integer satisfying 1 ≤ n ≤ N.

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