We compute the Hausdorff dimension of sets of very well approximable vectors on rational quadrics. We use ubiquitous systems and the geometry of locally symmetric spaces. As a byproduct we obtain the Hausdorff dimension of the set of rays with a fixed maximal singular direction, which move away into one end of a locally symmetric space at linear depth, infinitely many times.

The denseness of rational functions with prescribed poles in the Hardy space and disk algebra is considered. Notations. C complex plane D unit disk fz : jzj < 1g Tunit circle fz : jzj = 1g H p Hardy space of analytic functions on D kfk 1 := supfjf(z)j : z 2 D g, the H 1 norm A(D) disk algebra of functions analytic on D and continuous on D P n set of polynomials of degree at most n

Best rational approximations are notoriously difficult to compute. However, the difference between the best rational approximation to a function and its Carathéodory-Fejér (CF) approximation is often so small as to be negligible in practice, while CF approximations are far easier to compute. We present a robust and fast implementation of this method in the Chebfun software system and illustrate...