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Metrical Diophantine approximation for quaternions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2014

MAURICE DODSON  and
BRENT EVERITT
MAURICE DODSON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD.
BRENT EVERITT
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD.
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Abstract

Analogues of the classical theorems of Khintchine, Jarník and Jarník-Besicovitch in the metrical theory of Diophantine approximation are established for quaternions by applying results on the measure of general ‘lim sup’ sets.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 157 , Issue 3 , November 2014 , pp. 513 - 542
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