An inhomogeneous Dirichlet theorem via shrinking targets (1709.04082v2)

Abstract: We give an integrability criterion on a real-valued non-increasing function $\psi$ guaranteeing that for almost all (or almost no) pairs $(A, \textbf{b})$, where $A$ is a real $m\times n$ matrix and $\textbf{b} \in \mathbb{R}^m$, the system $|A \textbf{q}+\textbf{b}-\textbf{p}|^m< \psi({T})$, $|\textbf{q}|^n<{T}$ is solvable in $\textbf{p} \in \mathbb{Z}^m$, $\textbf{q} \in \mathbb{Z}^n$ for all sufficiently large $T$. The proof consists of a reduction to a shrinking target problem on the space of grids in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$. We also comment on the homogeneous counterpart to this problem, whose $m=n=1$ case was recently solved, but whose general case remains open.