Event № 754

In Diophantine approximation we are often interested in the Lebesgue and Hausdorff measures of certain lim sup sets. In 2006, Beresnevich and Velani proved a remarkable result — the Mass Transference Principle — which allows for the transference of Lebesgue measure theoretic statements to Hausdorff measure theoretic statements for lim sup sets arising from sequences of balls in R k . Subsequently, they extended this Mass Transference Principle to the more general situation in which the lim sup sets arise from sequences of neighbourhoods of “approximating” planes. In this talk I will discuss a recent strengthening (joint with Victor Beresnevich, York, UK) of this latter result in which some potentially restrictive conditions have been removed from the original statement. This improvement gives rise to some very general statements which allow for the immediate transference of Lebesgue measure Khintchine–Groshev type statements to their Hausdorff measure analogues and, consequently, has some interesting applications in Diophantine approximation