Equidistribution of q-orbits of closed geodesics

Abstract: We introduce a natural way of associating oriented closed geodesics on the modular curve to elements of

(m a t h b b Z / q m a t h b b Z)^{i} m e s

and prove that the corresponding packets associated to sufficiently large subgroups equidistribute in the unit tangent bundle as

q

tends to infinity. This is a

q

-orbit analogue of Duke's Theorem for real quadratic field as extended to subgroups by Popa. We also show that the homology classes of the

q

-orbits of oriented closed geodesics concentrate around the Eisenstein line and present group theoretic applications thereof.

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