Abstract:
The Dirichlet box principle gives surprisingly accurate results in problems of approximation of real numbers by rational numbers, transcendental numbers by real algebraic numbers.
Every polynomial taking small values at a given point $x$ also takes small values in its neighborhood.
A problem of studying such neighborhoods and obtaining possible Lebesgue measure values arises frequently.
In this paper we solve the problem in the p-adic case using recent results of the metric theory of Diophantine approximations.
Key words:Diophantine approximations, Haar measure, p-adic numbers, Dirichlet theorem.