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The disadvantage of ‘traditional’ multidimensional continued fraction algorithms is that it is not known whether they provide simultaneous rational approximations for generic vectors. Following ideas of Dani, Lagarias and Kleinbock-Margulis we describe a simple algorithm based on the dynamics of flows on the homogeneous space \(SL(d, \mathbb{Z}) \backslash SL(d, \mathbb{R})\) (the space of lattices of covolume one) that indeed yields best possible approximations to any irrational vector. The algorithm is ideally suited for a number of dynamical applications that involve small divisor problems. As an example, we explicitly construct a renormalization scheme for the linearization of vector fields on tori of arbitrary dimension.
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Khanin, K., Dias, J.L. & Marklof, J. Multidimensional Continued Fractions, Dynamical Renormalization and KAM Theory. Commun. Math. Phys. 270, 197–231 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-006-0125-y
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