Limiting distribution of geodesics in a geometrically finite quotients of regular trees (Q2035105)

Summary: Let \(\mathcal{T}\) be a \((q+1)\)-regular tree and let \(\Gamma\) be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup of the group \(\mathrm{Aut}(\mathcal{T})\) of automorphisms of \(\mathcal{T}\). In this article, we prove an extreme value theorem on the distribution of geodesics in a non-compact quotient graph \(\Gamma\backslash\mathcal{T}\). Main examples of such graphs are quotients of a Bruhat-Tits tree by non-cocompact discrete subgroups \(\Gamma\) of \(\mathrm{PGL}(2,\mathbf{K})\) of a local field \(\mathbf{K}\) of positive characteristic. We investigate, for a given time \(T\), the measure of the set of \(\Gamma\)-equivalent classes of geodesics with distance at most \(N(T)\) from a sufficiently large fixed compact subset \(D\) of \(\Gamma\backslash\mathcal{T}\) up to time \(T\). We show that there exists a function \(N(T)\) such that for Bowen-Margulis measure \(\mu\) on the space \(\Gamma\backslash\mathcal{GT}\) of geodesics and the critical exponent \(\delta\) of \(\Gamma\), \[ \lim\limits_{T\to\infty}\mu(\{[l]\in\Gamma\backslash\mathcal{GT}:\underset{0\le t \le T}\max d(D,l(t))\le N(T)+y\})=e^{-q^y/e^{2\delta y}}. \] In fact, we obtain a precise formula for \(N(T)\): there exists a constant \(C\) depending on \(\Gamma\) and \(D\) such that \[ N(T)=\log_{e^{2\delta/q}}\Big(\frac{T(e^{2\delta-q)}}{2e^{2\delta}-C(e^{2\delta}-q)}\Big).\]