Rational points near manifolds and Khintchine theorem

Abstract: In this paper, we complete the long-standing challenge to establish a Khintchine-type theorem for arbitrary nondegenerate manifolds in $\mathbb{R}^n$. In particular, our main result finally removes the analyticity assumption from the Khintchine type theorem proved in [Ann. of Math. 175 (2012), 187-235]. Furthermore, we obtain a Jarn\'ik-type refinement of our main result, which uses Hausdorff measures. The results are also obtained in the inhomogeneous setting. The proofs are underpinned by a sharper version of a `quantitative nondivergence' result of Bernik--Kleinbock--Margulis and a duality argument which we use to study rational points near manifolds.