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On Liouville decompositions in local fields

Author(s): Edward B. Burger
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 3305-3310.
MSC (1991): Primary 11J61, 11J81
MathSciNet review: 1350935
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Abstract: In 1962 Erd\H{o}s proved that every real number may be decomposed into a sum of Liouville numbers. Here we consider more general functions which decompose elements from an arbitrary local field into Liouville numbers. Several examples and applications are given. As an illustration, we prove that for any real numbers $\alpha _{1},\thinspace \alpha _{2},\ldots  ,\thinspace \alpha _{N}$, not equal to 0 or 1, there exist uncountably many Liouville numbers $\sigma $ such that $\alpha _{1}^{\sigma },\thinspace \alpha _{2}^{\sigma  },\thinspace \ldots ,\thinspace \alpha _{N}^{\sigma }$ are all Liouville numbers.


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Additional Information:

Edward B. Burger
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267
Email: Edward.B.Burger@williams.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03572-1
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03572-1
Received by editor(s): April 6, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 3, 1995
Communicated by: William W. Adams
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society




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