Homogeneous orbit closures and applications (Q2908158)

For \(d\geq 3\), let \(X_d = SL_d(\mathbb Z)\backslash SL_d(\mathbb R)\) and \(A\) be the group of diagonal elements in \(SL_d(\mathbb R)\) with nonnegative entries. By a famous conjecture of Margulis, every bounded \(A\)-orbit in \(X_d\) is expected to be periodic. The authors provide explicit constructions of new examples of \(A\)-regular points of periodic type as well as of \(A\)-irregular points. Moreover, they provide applications to Diophantine approximations of algebraic numbers.