An inhomogeneous Dirichlet theorem via shrinking targets

Abstract

We give an integrability criterion on a real-valued non-increasing function $ψ$ 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 $\|A \textbf{q}+\textbf{b}-\textbf{p}\|^m< ψ({T})$, $\|\textbf{q}\|^n<{T}$ 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.