Sparse equidistribution of unipotent orbits in finite-volume quotients of PSL(2, R)

DOI10.3934/JMD.2016.10.1MaRDI QIDQ316977zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cheng Zheng

Publication date 30 September 2016

Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05973

zbMATH Keywords

cuspsgeodesic excursionshomogeneous dynamicssparse equidistribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Homogeneous flows (37A17) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Abstract: In this note, we consider the orbits $pu(n^{1+gamma})|ninmathbbN$ in $$, where $Gamma$ is a non-uniform lattice in $extPSL(2,mathbbR)$ and $u(t)$ is the standard unipotent group in $extPSL(2,mathbbR)$. Under a Diophantine condition on the intial point $p$, we can prove that $pu(n^{1+gamma})|ninmathbbN$ is equidistributed in $$ for small $gamma>0$, which generalizes a result of Venkatesh (Ann.of Math. 2010). We will compute Hausdorff dimensions of subsets of non-Diophantine points in Appendix A, using results of lattice counting problem. In Appendix B we will use a technique of Venkatesh (Ann.of Math. 2010) and an exponential mixing property to prove a weak version of a result of Str"ombergsson (J Mod Dynam, 2013), which is about the effective equidistribution of horospherical orbits.

Review text

\textit{A. Venkatesh} [Ann. Math. (2) 172, No. 2, 989--1094 (2010; Zbl 1214.11051)] introduced techniques using discrepancy to show that if \(\Gamma<\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})\) is a uniform lattice and \(\gamma>0\) is a small parameter chosen depending on the spectral gap of the Laplacian on the quotient space \(\Gamma\backslash \mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})\) then \((1/N)\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}f(pu(n^{1+\gamma}))\to\int_{\Gamma\backslash \mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})} f\text{{d}}\mu\) as \(N\to\infty\) for any point \(p\in\Gamma\backslash \mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})\) and continuous function \(f\) on \(\Gamma\backslash \mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})\), where \(u(t)\) is the usual unipotent matrix \(\begin{pmatrix}1&t\\0&1\end{pmatrix}\). This equidistribution property along the sparse sequence \((n^{1+\gamma})\) was strengthened by \textit{J. Tanis} and \textit{P. Vishe} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2015, No. 24, 13728--13756 (2015; Zbl 1357.37058)] to remove the dependence of \(\gamma>0\) on the spectral gap, giving a uniform result for a fixed \(\gamma>0\). Here the case of a non-uniform lattice is considered, proving a sparse equidistribution result along the lines of a conjecture of \textit{N. A. Shah} [Duke Math. J. 75, No. 3, 711--732 (1994; Zbl 0818.22005)]. In order to deal with the possibility of exceptional orbits in this non-compact setting a Diophantine condition is introduced, and the main result is that the same equidistribution holds along the same sparse sequence for small \(\gamma>0\) and initial point \(p\) satisfying the Diophantine condition.

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