# Irrationality measure of log(2)/log(6)

As part of my Phd thesis on aperiodic Wang tilings, I've discovered I need a bound on the irrationality measure of $\gamma = \log 2/\log 6$. That is, I am looking for an upper bound on the quantity

$\eta = \inf \{\alpha : \left|\frac{\log 2}{\log 6} - \frac{p}{q}\right| < \frac{1}{q^\alpha} \text{ for only finitely many$p,q\in\mathbf Z$}\}$.

I have found a paper An explicit lower bound for a homogeneous rational linear form in logarithms of algebraic numbers by E.M. Matveev. This paper gives a complicated system of parameters which can be adjusted bound the irrationality measure of rational linear combinations of logs. From this I have managed to obtain the bound

$\eta < 10^9$.

Does anyone know of references that can produce a better bound on this quanity? Perhaps one closer to its likely value of 2?

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Inequality (8) there shows that if $u_0$, $u_1$ and $u_2$ are integers with $H= \max(|u_1|,|u_2|)$ sufficiently large, then we have $$|u_0+u_1\log 2 + u_2 \log 3| \ge H^{-7.616}.$$ Thus $\eta \le 8.616$.
I don't know a free online version for Rhin's paper (you can find it on Springer Link). But you can look at this paper by Qiang Wu in Math. Comp. which discusses similar problems and mentions Rhin's work (which seems the best known result for the $\log 2$ and $\log 3$ case).