On transfer inequalities in Diophantine approximation, II

Let Θ be a point in R ⁿ . We are concerned with the approximation to Θ by rational linear subvarieties of dimension d for 0 ≤ d ≤ n−1. To that purpose, we introduce various convex bodies in the Grassmann algebra Λ(R ⁿ⁺¹). It turns out that our convex bodies in degree d are the dth compound, in the sense of Mahler, of convex bodies in degree one. A dual formulation is also given. This approach enables us both to split and to refine the classical Khintchine transference principle.