Equidistribution of expanding translates of curves and Diophantine approximation on matrices (Q2187250)

One can begin with author's abstract: ``We study the general problem of equidistribution of expanding translates of an analytic curve by an algebraic diagonal flow on the homogeneous space \(G/\Gamma\) of a semisimple algebraic group \(G\). We define two families of algebraic subvarieties of the associated partial flag variety \(G/\Gamma\), which give the obstructions to non-divergence and equidistribution. We apply this to prove that for Lebesgue almost every point on an analytic curve in the space of \(m\times n\) real matrices whose image is not contained in any subvariety coming from these two families, Dirichlet's theorem on simultaneous Diophantine approximation cannot be improved. The proof combines geometric invariant theory, Ratner's theorem on measure rigidity for unipotent flows, and linearization technique.'' It is noted that many problems in number theory can be recast in the language of homogeneous dynamics. A survey is devoted to this fact, to the main problems of this research, and to the motivation of the present investigations. Notions that are useful for proving the main statements are recalled and explained. The main results and several auxiliary statements are proven with explanations. Applications of the main results and also connections between these results and known researches are noted.