Zooming in on quadrics

Alec Shute (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 22nd November, 2023 16:00-17:00 Maths 110

Abstract

Classically, Diophantine approximation is the study of how well real numbers can be approximated by rational numbers with small denominators. However, there is an analogous question where we replace the real line with the real points of an algebraic variety: How well can we approximate a real point with rational points of small height? In this talk I will present joint work with Zhizhong Huang and Damaris Schindler in which we study this question for projective quadrics. Our approach makes use of a version of the circle method developed by Heath-Brown, Duke, Friedlander and Iwaniec.

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