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Davenport-Schmidt theorem (Theorem)

For any real $\xi$ which is not rational or quadratic irrational, there are infinitely many rational or real quadratic irrational $\alpha$ which satisfy

$\displaystyle \mid \xi - \alpha \mid < C\cdot H(\alpha)^{-3}, $
where

\begin{displaymath} C = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} C_0, & \textrm{if} \mid\xi\mid... ..._0\cdot \xi^2, & \textrm{if} \mid\xi\mid >1. \end{array}right. \end{displaymath}
$C_0$ is any fixed number greater than $\frac{160}{9}$ and $H(\alpha )$ is the height of $\alpha$ .[DS]
The height of the rational or quadratic irrational number $\alpha$ is $$H(\alpha)=\operatorname{max}(|x|,|y|,|z|)$$ where $x$ ,$y$ ,$z$ are from the unique equation $$x\alpha^2+y\alpha+z=0$$ such that $x$ ,$y$ ,$z$ are not all zero relatively prime integral coefficients.[DS]

Bibliography

DS
Davenport, H. Schmidt, M. Wolfgang: Approximation to real numbers by quadratic irrationals. Acta Arithmetica XIII, 1967.




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Cross-references: coefficients, integral, relatively prime, equation, number, fixed, irrational, rational, real

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AMS MSC11J68 (Number theory :: Diophantine approximation, transcendental number theory :: Approximation to algebraic numbers)

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