Anosov groups: local mixing, counting and equidistribution (Q6043687)

Decay of correlations of \(L^2\) functions on a homogeneous space has been extensively studied and finds wide applications in equidistribution and lattice point counting problems. Here decay of matric coefficients in \(L^2(\Gamma\backslash G)\) for a connected semi-simple real algebraic group \(G\) and a Zariski dense Anosov subgroup \(\Gamma\) with respect to a minimal parabolic subgroup. Writing \(G=K\cdot\exp(\mathfrak{a}^+)\cdot K\) for a Cartan decomposition of \(G\), where \(K\) is a maximal compact subgroup, \(\mathfrak{a}^{+}\) is positive Weyl chamber of the Lie algebra of a maximal split torus \(\mathfrak{a}\) with centralizer \(M\) in \(K\). Higher rank analogues of Burger-Roblin measures \(m^{\mathrm{BR}}\), \(m^{\mathrm{BR}_{*}}\) on \(\Gamma\backslash G\) are defined here and the main result is that for any \(u\) in the interior of the limit cone of \(\Gamma\) in \(\mathfrak{a}^{+}\) and \(f_1,f_2\in C_c(\Gamma\backslash G)^M\) we have \( t^{(r-1)/2}{\mathrm{e}}^{t(2\rho-\psi_{\Gamma})(u)} \int_{\Gamma\backslash G} f_1(x\cdot\exp(tu))f_2(x){\mathrm{d}}x \to \kappa_u m_{i(u)}^{\mathrm{BR}}(f_1)m_{u}^{\mathrm{BR}_{*}}(f_2) \) as \(t\to\infty\) for some \(\kappa_u>0\), where \(2\rho\) is the sum of positive roots with respect to \(\mathfrak{a}^{+}\), \(r\) is the real rank of \(G\) and \(\psi_{\Gamma}\) is the growth indicator function on \(\mathfrak{a}^{+}\). Equidistribution results for translates of maximal horospheres in \(\Gamma\backslash G\) are obtained and these results are applied to several lattice point counting problems.