Sequences of Diophantine approximations

We sharpen a technique of Gelfond to show that, in a sense, the only possible gap-free sequences of “good” Diophantine approximations to a fixed α ∈ C are trivial ones. For example, suppose that a > 1 and that (δ_n)_n=1^∞ and (σ_n)_n=1^∞ are two positive, strictly increasing unbounded sequences satisfying δ_n+1 ≤ aδ_n and σ_n+1 ≤ aσ_n. If there is a sequence of nonzero polynomials P_n ∈ Z[x] with deg P_n ≤ δ_n, deg P_n + log height P_n ≤ σ_n, and ∣P_n(α)∣ ≤ e^{?(2a+1)δ_nσ_n}, then each P_n(α) = 0.