Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: The celebrated Lévy--Khintchine theorem is a fundamental limiting law that describes the growth rate of the denominators of the convergents in the continued fraction expansion of a Lebesgue-typical real number. In a recent breakthrough, Cheung and Chevallier \textit{(Annales scientifiques de l'ENS, 2024)} extended this theorem to higher dimensions. In this paper, we resolve a conjecture of Y. Cheung and answer a question of Cheung and Chevallier concerning Lévy--Khintchine type theorems for arbitrary norms. We also establish a higher-dimensional analogue of the Doeblin--Lenstra law. While our results are new in higher dimensions, they also yield significant improvements in the classical one-dimensional setting. Specifically, we revisit the Lévy--Khintchine theorem and the Doeblin--Lenstra law through the lens of Mahler's influential proposal to study Diophantine approximation on fractals. In particular, we prove these results for almost every point on the middle-third Cantor set. More broadly, our framework applies to a wide class of measures, including those supported on curves and on self-similar fractals generated by iterated function systems (IFS), and it also allows constraints on the selection of best approximates.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Aggarwal, Gaurav, Ghosh, Anish
Institution: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Language: English
Subfield: Mathematical Physics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402706277