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David Simmons

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Preprint Aug 2026

Well and badly approximable sets, and rapid winning

The set of $\tau$-approximable numbers, $\mathcal W(\tau)$, has genuinely fractional Hausdorff dimension, whereas the set of inhomogeneously badly approximable numbers, $\Bad^\gamma$, has full Hausdorff dimension. We determine the Hausdorff dimension of their intersection by introducing the $\Psi$-rapid game, a scale-sensitive refinement of the rapid game of Hatefi and Simmons (preprint 2024). For every approximation function $\psi$, we prove that $\mathcal W(\psi)\cap\Bad^\gamma$ is strong $\Psi$-rapid winning for a natural gauge $\Psi$ determined by $\psi$. Unlike Schmidt-type games, whose winning property always implies full Hausdorff dimension, the $\Psi$-rapid game is calibrated to a prescribed Diophantine scale, so that the resulting dimension bound depends explicitly on the decay of $\Psi$. In particular, for $\psi(q)=q^{-\tau}, \tau\ge1,$ we recover the exact Jarn\'ik--Besicovitch dimension, that is, $$ \HD\bigl(\mathcal W(\tau)\cap\Bad^\gamma\bigr)=\frac{2}{\tau+1}.$$

Mumtaz Hussain, David Simmons · 0 citations