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Let be a real number, and let be the set of positive real numbers for which
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has (at most) finitely many solutions for and integers. Then the irrationality measure, sometimes called the Liouville-Roth constant or irrationality exponent, is defined as the threshold at which Liouville's approximation theorem kicks in and is no longer approximable by rational numbers,
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where is the infimum. If the set is empty, then is defined to be , and is called a Liouville number. There are three possible regimes for nonempty :
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where the transitional case can correspond to being either algebraic of degree or being transcendental. Showing that for an algebraic number is a difficult result for which Roth was awarded the Fields medal.
The definition of irrationality measure is equivalent to the statement that if has irrationality measure , then is the smallest number such that the inequality
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holds for any and all integers and with sufficiently large.
The irrationality measure of an irrational number can be given in terms of its simple continued fraction expansion and its convergents as
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(Sondow 2004). For example, the golden ratio has
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which follows immediately from (6) and the simple continued fraction expansion .
Exact values include for Liouville's constant and (Borwein and Borwein 1987, pp. 364-365). The best known upper bounds for other common constants as of mid-2020 are summarized in the following table, where is Apéry's constant, and are q-harmonic series, and the lower bounds are 2.
constant | upper bound | reference |
7.10320534 | Zeilberger and Zudilin (2020) | |
5.09541179 | Zudilin (2103) | |
3.57455391 | Marcovecchio (2009) | |
5.116201 | Bondareva et al. (2018) | |
5.513891 | Rhin and Viola (2001) | |
2.9384 | Matala-Aho et al. (2006) | |
2.4650 | Zudilin (2004) |
The bound for is due to Zeilberger and Zudilin (2020) and improves on the value 7.606308 previously found by Salikhov (2008). It has exact value given as follows. Let be the complex conjugate roots of
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let be the positive real root, and let
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then the bound is given by
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Alekseyev (2011) has shown that the question of the convergence of the Flint Hills series is related to the irrationality measure of , and in particular, convergence would imply , which is much stronger than the best currently known upper bound.
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