McGuire, Stephen (2018) Extensions to a Lemma of Bernik with Applications in the area of Metric Diophantine Approximation. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Abstract
This thesis is concerned with two extensions to a result of V. I Bernik [23] from
1983 which provides a quantitative description of the fact that two relatively prime
polynomials in Z[x] cannot both have very small absolute values (in terms of their
degrees and heights) in an interval unless that interval is extremely short. Bernik's
result was presented for intervals in R and has the restriction that the polynomials
being considered must have small modulus. In this thesis the result is extended
to a cuboid in R3 and, in fact, it is clear from the proof that the result holds in
Rn. Furthermore the restriction that the polynomials must have small modulus is
removed. This is the first extension of Bernik's result to consider polynomials of
large modulus. Bernik's result is also extended to a parallelepiped in R x C x Qp.
This is not the first extension of this kind but the method of proof used leads to a
new and very useful proposition.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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Keywords: | Extensions; Lemma; Bernik; Applications; Metric Diophantine Approximation; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematics and Statistics |
Item ID: | 11006 |
Depositing User: | IR eTheses |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2019 14:50 |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/11006 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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