Effective Counting and Spiralling of Lattice Approximates

Abstract

Given $d\geq 2$, we show that the number of approximates $\frac{1}{q}\mathbf{p}\in \mathbb{Q}^d$ of $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^d$ satisfying $|q\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{p}|\leq cq^{-\frac{1}{d}}$ with denominator $1\leq q < T$ decays to the asymptotic term $c\text{vol}_d(B_d(0,1))\log T$ with error of order $\left(\log T\right)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\left(\log \log T\right)^\frac{3}{2}\left(\log\log\log T\right)^{\frac{1}{2}+\epsilon}$ for almost all $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^d$ and for any $\epsilon >0$. Results with the same order are proven for primitive lattice approximates for all $d\geq 1$ and also for the case of linear forms and affine lattices. These results, especially in the primitive case for $d=1$, are an improvement to the results of Schmidt.