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A generalization of the Jarník–Besicovitch theorem by continued fractions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2015

BAO-WEI WANG ,
JUN WU  and
JIAN XU
BAO-WEI WANG
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, China email bwei_wang@hust.edu.cn, jun.wu@mail.hust.edu.cn, arielxj@hotmail.com
JUN WU
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, China email bwei_wang@hust.edu.cn, jun.wu@mail.hust.edu.cn, arielxj@hotmail.com
JIAN XU
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, China email bwei_wang@hust.edu.cn, jun.wu@mail.hust.edu.cn, arielxj@hotmail.com
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Abstract

We apply the tools of continued fractions to tackle the Diophantine approximation, including the classic Jarník–Besicovitch theorem, localized Jarník–Besicovitch theorem and its several generalizations. As is well known, the classic Jarník–Besicovitch sets, expressed in terms of continued fractions, can be written as

$$\begin{eqnarray}\{x\in [0,1):a_{n+1}(x)\geq e^{{\it\tau}(\log |T^{\prime }x|+\cdots +\log |T^{\prime }(T^{n-1}x)|)}~\text{for infinitely many}~n\in \mathbb{N}\},\end{eqnarray}$$
where $T$ is the Gauss map and $a_{n}(x)$ is the $n$th partial quotient of $x$. In this paper, we consider the size of the generalized Jarník–Besicovitch set
$$\begin{eqnarray}\{x\in [0,1):a_{n+1}(x)\geq e^{{\it\tau}(x)(f(x)+\cdots +f(T^{n-1}x))}~\text{for infinitely many}~n\in \mathbb{N}\},\end{eqnarray}$$
 where ${\it\tau}(x)$ and $f(x)$ are positive functions defined on $[0,1]$.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , June 2016 , pp. 1278 - 1306
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© Cambridge University Press, 2015 

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