{ "id": "0711.3645", "version": "v1", "published": "2007-11-23T18:35:06.000Z", "updated": "2007-11-23T18:35:06.000Z", "title": "Diophantine Approximation on varieties III: Approximation of non-algebraic points by algebraic points", "authors": [ "Heinrich Massold" ], "comment": "42 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.AG" ], "abstract": "For $\\theta$ a non-algebraic point on a quasi projective variety over a number field, I prove that $\\theta$ has an approximation by a series of algebraic points of bounded height and degree which is essentially best possible. Applications of this result will include a proof of a slightly strengthened version of the Philippon criterion, some new algebraic independence criteria, statements concerning metric transcendence theory on varieties of arbitrary dimension, and a rather accurate estimate for the number of algebraic points of bounded height and degree on quasi projective varieties over number fields.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2007-11-23T18:35:06.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11J13", "11J81", "11J85", "14G40", "14G17", "11J83", "14J20", "11G50", "14G25", "11G35" ], "keywords": [ "algebraic points", "non-algebraic point", "diophantine approximation", "quasi projective variety", "number field" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 42, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0711.3645M" } } }