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Mathlib.NumberTheory.Transcendental.Liouville.Residual

Density of Liouville numbers #

In this file we prove that the set of Liouville numbers form a dense Gδ set. We also prove a similar statement about irrational numbers.

theorem setOf_liouville_eq_iInter_iUnion :
{x : ℝ | Liouville x} = ⋂ (n : ℕ), ⋃ (a : ℤ), ⋃ (b : ℤ), ⋃ (_ : 1 < b), Metric.ball (↑a / ↑b) (1 / ↑b ^ n) \ {↑a / ↑b}
theorem setOf_liouville_eq_irrational_inter_iInter_iUnion :
{x : ℝ | Liouville x} = {x : ℝ | Irrational x} ∩ ⋂ (n : ℕ), ⋃ (a : ℤ), ⋃ (b : ℤ), ⋃ (_ : 1 < b), Metric.ball (↑a / ↑b) (1 / ↑b ^ n)

The set of Liouville numbers is a residual set.

The set of Liouville numbers in dense.