{ "id": "1302.6061", "version": "v1", "published": "2013-02-25T11:43:09.000Z", "updated": "2013-02-25T11:43:09.000Z", "title": "Diophantine Approximation with Products of Two Primes", "authors": [ "A. J. Irving" ], "comment": "25 pages", "doi": "10.1112/jlms/jdt079", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We show that for any irrational $\\alpha$ and any $\\tau<8/23$ there are infinitely many $n$ which are the product of two primes for which $$\\|n\\alpha\\|\\leq n^{-\\tau}.$$ We also show that for all sufficiently large $b$ there exist 3-digit palindromes in base $b$ with precisely two prime factors.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2013-02-25T11:43:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "diophantine approximation", "prime factors", "irrational" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 25, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013arXiv1302.6061I" } } }