The harmonic analysis of lattice counting on real spherical spaces (Q321871)

A lattice counting aims to establish a relationship between arithmetic and randomness for lattices, which act on homogeneous spaces. Let \(Z = G/H\) be a homogeneous space of an algebraic real reductive group \(G\) and \(H \subset G\) be an algebraic subgroup such that \(Z\) has an invariant measure. Further let \(\Gamma\) be a lattice in \(G\) such that \(H \cap \Gamma\) is a lattice in \(H\). This paper investigates the lattice counting for a real spherical space \(Z\) (for which the actions of minimal parabolic subgroups of \(G\) on \(Z\) have open orbits). Further let us suppose that we are given a family \(\mathcal B\) of ``balls'' \(B_R \subset Z\) depending on a parameter \(R > 0\). Let \(z_0 = H \in Z\) be the standard base point. The lattice counting problem for some family \(\mathcal B\) of balls in \(Z\) consists in the determination of the asymptotic behavior of the density of \(\Gamma \cdot z_0\) in balls \(B_R \subset Z\), as the radius \(R \to \infty\). By main term counting for \(B\) the statement that the asymptotic density is 1 is understood. It is proved in this paper that if \(Z = G/H\) is a real spherical space and \(Y = G/\Gamma\) is compact, then main term counting holds. Then the problem of determining the error term in counting problems is investigated. Also some topics of harmonic analysis on reductive homogeneous spaces, which are currently open and may have applications to lattice counting, are discussed.