A generalization of the prime geodesic theorem to counting conjugacy classes of free subgroups.

Abstract: The classical prime geodesic theorem (PGT) gives an asymptotic formula (as

x

tends to infinity) for the number of closed geodesics with length at most

x

on a hyperbolic manifold

M

. Closed geodesics correspond to conjugacy classes of

p i_{1} (M) = G a m m a

where

G a m m a

is a lattice in

G = S O (n, 1)

. The theorem can be rephrased in the following format. Let

be the space of representations of

into

G a m m a

modulo conjugation by

G a m m a

.

is defined similarly. Let

be the projection map. The PGT provides a volume form

v o l

on

such that for sequences of subsets

B_{t}

,

satisfying certain explicit hypotheses,

| p i^{- 1} (B_{t}) |

is asymptotic to

v o l (B_{t})

. We prove a statement having a similar format in which

is replaced by a free group of finite rank under the additional hypothesis that

n = 2

or 3.

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