Effective counting on translation surfaces (Q2281325): Difference between revisions

A translation surface \(\mathbf{x}\) is a compact oriented surface equipped with an atlas of planar charts. The collection of all translation surfaces of a fixed genus, fixed number of singular points, and fixed cone angle at each singular point is called a \textit{stratum}. Each connected component of the subset of area one surfaces in a stratum is the support of a natural smooth probability measure, which is called the \textit{flat measure}. A \textit{saddle connection} on a translation surface \(\mathbf{x}\) is a segment connecting two singular points which is linear in each planar chart and contains non singular points in its interior. The \textit{holonomy vector} of a saddle connection is the vector in the plane obtained by integrating the pullback of the planar form \((dx,dy)\), along the saddle connection. Denote by \(V(\mathbf{x})\) the collection of all holonomy vectors of saddle connections for \(\mathbf{x}\). Let \(\mathcal{H}\) be a stratum of translation surfaces, let \(G=\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})\) and let \(\mathcal{L} \subset \mathcal{H}\) be the closure of a \(G\)-orbit in \(\mathcal{H}\). In [Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 21, No. 2, 443--478 (2001; Zbl 1096.37501)], \textit{A. Eskin} and \textit{H. Masur} proved that there is \(c>0\) such that for almost every translation surface \(\mathbf{x}\) (with respect to the flat measure) in \(\mathcal{L}\), the number \(N(T,\mathbf{x})=|V(\mathbf{x}) \cap B(0, T)|\) of saddle connection with holonomy vector of length at most \(T\), which satisfies \[N(T, \mathbf{x})=cT^2+o(T^2).\] The main goal of this paper is to prove an effective version of a celebrated result of Eskin and Masur. That is to establish that there exists \(\kappa>0\) such that for almost every translation surface \(\mathbf{x}\) in \(\mathcal{L}\), one has \[N(T, \mathbf{x})=cT^2+O(T^{2(1-\kappa)}).\] Let \(\varphi_1< \varphi_2\) with \(\varphi_2-\varphi_1 \leq 2\pi\) and let \(N(T, \mathbf{x}, \varphi_1, \varphi_2)\) denote the cardinality of the intersection of \(V(\mathbf{x})\) with the sector \[S_{T, \varphi_1, \varphi_2}=\{r(\cos\varphi, \sin \varphi):0 \leq r \leq T, \varphi_1 \leq \varphi \leq \varphi_2\} \subset \mathbb{R}^2.\] \textit{Y. Vorobets} [Contemp. Math. 385, 205--258 (2005; Zbl 1130.37015)] showed that there is \(c>0\) such that for almost every \(\mathbf{x} \in \mathcal{H}\) (with respect to the flat measure on \(\mathcal{H}\)), \[N(T, \mathbf{x}, \varphi_1, \varphi_2)=c(\varphi_2-\varphi_1)T^2+o(T^2).\] In this paper, the authors also provided an effective version of counting in sectors, that is there is a constant \(\kappa>0\) such that such that for almost every \(\mathbf{x} \in \mathcal{H}\), one has \[N(T, \mathbf{x}, \varphi_1, \varphi_2)=\frac{c}{2}(\varphi_2-\varphi_1)T^2+O_{\mathbf{x}, \varphi_2-\varphi_1}(T^{2(1-\kappa)}).\]