A localized Jarnik-Besicovitch Theorem

Abstract

Fundamental questions in Diophantine approximation are related to the Hausdorff dimension of sets of the form $\{x\in \mathbb{R}: \delta_x = \delta\}$, where $\delta \geq 1$ and $\delta_x$ is the Diophantine approximation rate of an irrational number $x$. We go beyond the classical results by computing the Hausdorff dimension of the sets $\{x\in\mathbb{R}: \delta_x =f(x)\}$, where $f$ is a continuous function. Our theorem applies to the study of the approximation rates by various approximation families. It also applies to functions $f$ which are continuous outside a set of prescribed Hausdorff dimension.