Local positivity and effective Diophantine approximation

Abstract

In this paper we present a new approach to prove effective results in Diophantine approximation. This approach involves measures of local positivity of divisors combined with Faltings’s version of Siegel’s lemma instead of a zero estimate such as Dyson’s lemma. We then use it to prove an effective theorem on the simultaneous approximation of two algebraic numbers satisfying an algebraic equation with complex coefficients.