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Cubic Diophantine inequalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Jörg Brüdern
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Geismar Landstrasse 97, 3400 Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
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It was shown by Davenport and Roth [7] that the values taken by

at integer points ( x1, …, x8) ∈ ℤ8 are dense on the real line, providing at least one of the ratios λij, is irrational. Here and throughout, λi denote such nonzero real numbers. More precisely, Liu, Ng and Tsang [8] showed that for all the inequality

has infinitely many solutions in integers. Later Baker [1] obtained the same result in the enlarged range . In this note we improve this further, the progress being considerable.

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Copyright © University College London 1988

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