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Dirichlet's Theorem in Function Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Arijit Ganguly  and
Anish Ghosh
Arijit Ganguly
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 400005, India e-mail: arimath@math.tifr.res.in, ghosh.anish@gmail.com
Anish Ghosh
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 400005, India e-mail: arimath@math.tifr.res.in, ghosh.anish@gmail.com
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Abstract

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We study metric Diophantine approximation for function fields, specifically, the problem of improving Dirichlet's theorem in Diophantine approximation.

Keywords

11J8311K6037D4037A1722E40Dirichlet's theoremDiophantine approximationpositive characteristic

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , 01 June 2017 , pp. 532 - 547
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2017

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