Diophantine approximation on conics

Author:

O’Dorney Evan

Abstract

Given a conic C \mathcal {C} over Q \mathbb {Q} , it is natural to ask what real points on C \mathcal {C} are most difficult to approximate by rational points of low height. For the analogous problem on the real line (for which the least approximable number is the golden ratio, by Hurwitz’s theorem), the approximabilities comprise the classically studied Lagrange and Markoff spectra, but work by Cha–Kim [Intrinsic Diophantine approximation on the unit circle and its Lagrange spectrum, arXiv: 1903.02882, 2021] and Cha–Chapman–Gelb–Weiss [Monatsh. Math. 197 (2022), pp. 1–55] shows that the spectra of conics can vary. We provide notions of approximability, Lagrange spectrum, and Markoff spectrum valid for a general C \mathcal {C} and prove that their behavior is exhausted by the special family of conics C n : X Z = n Y 2 \mathcal {C}_n : XZ = nY^2 , which has symmetry by the modular group Γ 0 ( n ) \Gamma _0(n) and whose Markoff spectrum was studied in a different guise by A. Schmidt and Vulakh [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), pp. 4067–4094]. The proof proceeds by using the Gross-Lucianovic bijection to relate a conic to a quaternionic subring of Mat 2 × 2 ( Z ) \operatorname {Mat}^{2\times 2}(\mathbb {Z}) and classifying invariant lattices in its 2 2 -dimensional representation.

Publisher

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Subject

Applied Mathematics,General Mathematics

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