The Dirichlet spectrum

Abstract

Akhunzhanov and Shatskov defined the Dirichlet spectrum, corresponding to $m \times n$ matrices and to norms on $\mathbb{R}^m$ and $\mathbb{R}^n$. In case $(m,n) = (2,1)$ and using the Euclidean norm on $\mathbb{R}^2$, they showed that the spectrum is an interval. We generalize this result to arbitrary $(m,n) \neq (1,1)$ and arbitrary norms, improving previous works from recent years. We also define some related spectra and show that they too are intervals. Our argument is a modification of an argument of Khintchine from 1926.