The good-pair conjecture for the Generalised Baker–Schmidt Problem

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Let l2l\geq 2 and n2ln\geq 2l. A pair (l,n)(l,n) is called good when the conditions (I) and (II) defined earlier in the paper hold for the associated matrix construction. The induced manifolds are given by maps gg whose coordinate functions may be quadratic forms. Good-pair conjecture. The following claims hold:

(i) If l2l\geq 2, n2ln\geq 2l, and nln-l is even, then (l,n)(l,n) is a good pair.

(ii) If l2l\geq 2, n2ln\geq 2l, and nl4n-l\geq 4 is even, then there exists gg with coordinate functions gjg_j quadratic forms such that (I) and (II) hold on Rnl\mathbb R^{n-l}; hence the convergence part of the Generalised Baker–Schmidt Problem holds for the induced manifolds. Obstructions show that n2ln\geq 2l and the evenness of nln-l are necessary in the stated range. The simplest cases that remain open are l=3,n=9l=3,n=9 and l=4,n=8l=4,n=8.

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Mumtaz Hussain and Johannes Schleischitz, “The Baker-Schmidt problem for dual approximation and some classes of functions”, arXiv:2302.10378 (2023).

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