Applications of Thin Orbits

DOI10.1017/9781316402696.007zbMATH Open1406.11068arXiv1606.06325OpenAlexW2464009416MaRDI QIDQ4557488FDOQ4557488

Authors: Alex Kontorovich 

Publication date: 23 November 2018

Abstract: This text is based on a series of three expository lectures on a variety of topics related to "thin orbits," as delivered at Durham University's Easter School on "Dynamics and Analytic Number Theory" in April 2014. The first lecture reviews closed geodesics on the modular surface and the reduction theory of binary quadratic forms before discussing Duke's equidistribution theorem (for indefinite classes). The second lecture exposits three quite different but (it turns out) not unrelated problems, due to Einsiedler-Lindenstrauss-Michel-Venkatesh, McMullen, and Zaremba. The third lecture reformulates these in terms of the aforementioned thin orbits, and shows how all three would follow from a single "Local-Global" Conjecture of Bourgain and the author. We also describe some partial progress on the conjecture, which has lead to some results on the original problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06325

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zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsmodular surfaceDuke's equidistribution theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

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