The HADES seminar on Tuesday, February 17th, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.
Speaker: Liyang Shao
Abstract:
Badly approximable vectors are one of the central topics in Diophantine approximation. Though being null in Lebesgue measure, these vectors are known to have ‘thick’ structure, e.g. full Hausdorff dimension, or even stronger, the winning property that was first proven by Schmidt in the unweighted setup in the 1960s, and in the weighted setup recently by Beresnevich-Nesharim-Yang.
In this talk, we will first briefly introduce how the study of such vectors can be rooted in counting rational points, which is connected to subjects including harmonic analysis and homogeneous dynamics. Then we will describe how non-divergence estimates from homogeneous dynamics can give a winning property of inhomogeneous weighted badly approximable vectors. The second part is joint work with Shreyasi Datta.