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A NOTE ON BADLY APPROXIMABLE LINEAR FORMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2011

MUMTAZ HUSSAIN*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia (email: m.hussain@latrobe.edu.au)
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Abstract

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In this paper we investigate the analogue of the classical badly approximable setup in which the distance to the nearest integer ‖⋅‖ is replaced by the sup norm |⋅|. In the case of one linear form we prove that the hybrid badly approximable set is of full Hausdorff dimension.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2011

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