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ID: past-exam-of-the-analytic-number-theory-and-elliptic-curves-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/b/5/iv/solution
Past exam of the analytic number theory and elliptic curves course of the University of Oxford 2007 B 5 iv Solution by
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Choose a nonzero integer with . By the Chinese remainder theorem, choose satisfying and . Put . ThenThis proves the requested simultaneous approximation, even when the rational targets have denominators divisible by either prime.
A rational sequence converging to zero at every standard absolute value is:Its ordinary absolute value is at most , hence tends to zero. For a fixed prime and all sufficiently large , the denominator is congruent to one modulo , so . Therefore for each prime as well. The assertion concerns each fixed prime separately, rather than uniform convergence over all primes.
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