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import FormalConjectures.Util.ProblemImports
/-!
# Bugeaud Collection of Conjectures and Open Questions: Fractional Parts of Powers

Chapter 10 of the book collects open questions. This file formalizes Problems 10.1,
10.2, 10.3 and the unnumbered conjecture by Waldschmidt.

*References:*
- [Bug12] Bugeaud, Yann. "Distribution modulo one and Diophantine approximation."
Vol. 193. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Chapter 10.
- [Har19] Hardy, Gr H. "A problem of Diophantine approximation."
J. Indian Math. Soc 11 (1919): 162-166.
- [Kok45] Koksma, J. F. "Sur la théorie métrique des approximations diophantiques."
Indag. Math 7 (1945): 54-70.
- [Mah53] Mahler, Kurt. "On the approximation of logarithms of algebraic numbers."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences 245.898 (1953): 371-398.
- [Wal03](http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~michel.waldschmidt/articles/pdf/Cetraro.pdf)
Waldschmidt, Michel. "Linear independence measures for logarithms of algebraic numbers."
Diophantine Approximation: Lectures given at the CIME Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy,
June 28–July 6, 2000. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. 249-344.
-/

namespace Bugeaud

noncomputable def nearestInt (x : ℝ) : ℝ := ‖(x : UnitAddCircle)‖
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Problem 10.1. Are there a transcendental number $\alpha$ and a positive real
number $\xi$ such that $\lVert \xi \alpha^n \rVert$ tends to~$0$ as~$n$ tends to infinity? [Har19]
(Trivial for $|\alpha| < 1$).
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-/
@[category research open, AMS 11]
theorem problem_10_1 : answer(sorry) ↔
∃ (α ξ : ℝ), 1 < α ∧ Transcendental ℚ α ∧ 0 < ξ ∧
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Filter.Tendsto (fun n : ℕ ↦ nearestInt (ξ * α ^ n)) Filter.atTop (nhds 0) := by
sorry

/--
Problem 10.2. To prove that $\lVert e^n \rVert$ does not tend to 0 as n tends to
infinity.
-/
@[category research open, AMS 11]
theorem problem_10_2 :
¬ Filter.Tendsto (fun n : ℕ ↦ nearestInt (Real.exp n)) Filter.atTop (nhds 0) := by
sorry

/--
Problem 10.3. To prove that there exists a positive real number~$c$ such
that $\lVert e^n \rVert > e^{−cn}$, for every~$n \ge 1$. Posed by Mahler [Mah53].
-/
@[category research open, AMS 11]
theorem problem_10_3 :
∃ c : ℝ, 0 < c ∧ ∀ n : ℕ, 1 ≤ n → Real.exp (-c * n) < nearestInt (Real.exp n) := by
sorry

/--
Waldschmidt [Wal02] conjectured that a stronger result holds, namely
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that there exists a positive real number~$c$ such that $\lVert e^n \rVert > n^{−c}$ for
every~$n \ge 1$. This is supported by metrical results [Kok45].
-/
@[category research open, AMS 11]
theorem waldschmidt :
∃ c : ℝ, 0 < c ∧ ∀ n : ℕ, 1 ≤ n → (n : ℝ) ^ (-c) < nearestInt (Real.exp n) := by
sorry

end Bugeaud
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