Limit distributions of expanding translates of shrinking submanifolds and non-improvability of Dirichlet's approximation theorem (Q6066118)

This paper deals with a question arising from the work [\textit{H. Davenport} and \textit{W. M. Schmidt}, Acta Arith. 16, 413--424 (1970; Zbl 0201.05501)] on improvability of Dirichlet's Diophantine approximation theorem on submanifolds using methods from homogeneous dynamics. The dynamics problem studied is the action of the diagonal subgroup \[\{a(t)=\mathrm{diag}(t^n,t^{-1},\dots,t^{-1})\mid t>1\} \in \mathrm{SL}_{n+1}(\mathbb{R})\] on the space of unimodular lattices in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\). In this setting it is shown that if \(M\) is a nondegenerate submanifold of an expanding horospherical leaf and \(E\) is a union of countably many lower-dimensional submanifolds of \(M\) then translates of normalized Lebesgue measure under \(a(t)\) of a ball of radius \(t^{-1}\) around a point \(x\in M\setminus E\) equidistribute in the space of lattices as \(t\to\infty\). This result is then used to show the non-improvability of Dirichlet's Diophantine approximation theorem for almost every point of a \(C^{n+1}\) submanifold of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) under a nondegeneracy condition.