From exponential counting to pair correlations

DOI10.24033/BSMF.2867MaRDI QIDQ6091825zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jouni Parkkonen, Frédéric Paulin

Publication date 27 November 2023

Published in Bulletin de la Société mathématique de France (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12118

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicscommon perpendicularscounting functionequidistributiongrowth functionpair correlation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Asymptotic results on counting functions for algebraic and topological structures (11N45) Spaces of measures, convergence of measures (28A33) Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Orbit growth in dynamical systems (37C35) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We prove an abstract result on the correlations of pairs of elements in an exponentially growing discrete subset $mathcalE$ of $[0,+infty[,$ endowed with a weight function. Assume that there exist $alphainmathbbR$, $c,delta>0$ such that, as $to+infty$, the weighted number $widetildeomega(t)$ of elements of $mathcalE$ that are not greater than $t$ is equivalent to $c,t^{a}lpha{e}^{deltat}$. We prove that the distribution function of the unscaled differences of elements of $mathcalE$ is $tmapstofracdelta2,e^{-|t|}$, and that, under an error term assumption on $widetildeomega(t)$, the pair correlation with a scaling with polynomial growth exhibits a Poissonian behaviour. We apply this result to answer a question of Pollicott and Sharp on the pair correlations of closed geodesics and common perpendiculars in negatively curved manifolds and metric graphs.

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