Article Outline
Glossary
Definition of the Subject
Introduction
Basic Facts
Connection with Dynamics on the Space of Lattices
Diophantine Approximation with Dependent Quantities: The Set-Up
Further Results
Future Directions
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
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- Diophantine approximation :
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Diophantine approximation refers to approximation of real numbers by rational numbers, or more generally, finding integer points at which some (possibly vector‐valued) functions attain values close to integers.
- Metric number theory :
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Metric number theory (or, specifically, metric Diophantine approximation) refers to the study of sets of real numbers or vectors with prescribed Diophantine approximation properties.
- Homogeneous spaces:
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A homogeneous space \({G/\Gamma}\) of a group G by its subgroup Γ is the space of cosets \({\{g\Gamma\}}\). When G is a Lie group and Γ is a discrete subgroup, the space \({G/\Gamma}\) is a smooth manifold and locally looks like G itself.
- Lattice; unimodular lattice :
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A lattice in a Lie group is a discrete subgroup of finite covolume; unimodular stands for covolume equal to 1.
- Ergodic theory :
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The study of statistical properties of orbits in abstract models of dynamical systems.
- Hausdorff dimension :
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A nonnegative number attached to a metric space and extending the notion of topological dimension of “sufficiently regular” sets, such as smooth submanifolds of real Euclidean spaces.
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The work on this paper was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-0239463.
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Kleinbock, D. (2012). Ergodic Theory on Homogeneous Spaces and Metric Number Theory. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Mathematics of Complexity and Dynamical Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1806-1_19
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