Lattice deformations in the Heisenberg group

DOI10.4171/GGD/572MaRDI QIDQ2032445zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jayadev S. Athreya, Ioannis Konstantoulas

Publication date 11 June 2021

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01433

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg grouplattice deformationlattice point counting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mean value and transfer theorems (11H60)

Abstract: The space of deformations of the integer Heisenberg group under the action of $extrmAut(H(mathbbR))$ is a homogeneous space for a non-reductive group. We analyze its structure as a measurable dynamical system and obtain mean and variance estimates for Heisenberg lattice point counting in measurable subsets of $mathbb{R}^3$; in particular, we obtain a random Minkowski-type theorem. Unlike the Euclidean case, we show there are necessary geometric conditions on the sets that satisfy effective variance bounds.

Review text

Minkowski's theorem in the geometry of numbers shows that in any sufficiently large convex centrally symmetric open set in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) there are non-zero integral points. \textit{C. L. Siegel} [Ann. Math. (2) 46, 340--347 (1945; Zbl 0063.07011)] considered averaged lattice point counting over unimodular lattices and gave a mean value formula. Subsequently, \textit{C. A. Rogers} [Acta Math. 94, 249--287 (1955; Zbl 0065.28201)] obtained a variance bound in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) with \(n \geq 3\) while studying higher moments of functions on the space of lattices. \textit{W. Schmidt} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 95, 516--529 (1960; Zbl 0101.27904)] used the work of Rogers to show that for a nested family of Borel sets in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) with unbounded finite volumes, almost all lattices have the expected number of lattice points with explicit discrepancy bounds. \textit{B. Randol} [in: Problems in analysis. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 291--295 (1970; Zbl 0212.07002)] also considered a variance bound. \textit{J. S. Athreya} and \textit{G. A. Margulis} [J. Mod. Dyn. 3, No. 3, 359--378 (2009; Zbl 1184.37007)] used the results of Randol and Seigel to obtain a variance estimate for primitive lattice point counting allowing arbitrary Borel sets in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\). The recent work of \textit{R. Garg} et al. [Ann. Inst. Fourier 65, No. 5, 2199--2233 (2015; Zbl 1358.52017)] discusses the lattice point count of \(\mathbb{Z}^{2n+1}\) in large centered balls in certain norms homogeneous with respect to the dilations of the \((2n+1)\)-dimensional Heisenberg group. In the present paper, variance bounds for random lattices in the case of the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group have been obtained. In particular, it is shown that very simple sets \(\mathcal{S}\subset \mathbb{R}^{3}\) have no useful variance bound for the number of primitive points of a random Heisenberg lattice in \(\mathcal{S}\). On the other hand, a natural class of sets for which optimal variance bounds exist, is also obtained. The main technique is to realize the space of Heisenberg lattices as a fiber bundle over the space of Euclidean lattices, use the action of the automorphism group of \(H(\mathbb{R})\) on it and relate it to the action of \(\mathrm{SL}(2;\mathbb{R})\) on the space of Euclidean lattices.

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