Directions in orbits of geometrically finite hyperbolic subgroups

DOI10.1017/S0305004120000225MaRDI QIDQ4958641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christopher Lutsko

Publication date 14 September 2021

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11054

zbMATH Keywords

Schottky groupsApollonian circle packingsPatterson-Sullivan theoryfine-scale statistics of orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) Homogeneous flows (37A17) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44) Applications of Clifford algebras to physics, etc. (15A67)

Abstract: We prove a theorem describing the limiting fine-scale statistics of orbits of a point in hyperbolic space under the action of a discrete subgroup. Similar results have been proved only in the lattice case, with two recent infinite-volume exceptions by Zhang for Apollonian circle packings and certain Schottky groups. Our results hold for general Zariski dense, non-elementary, geometrically finite subgroups in any dimension. Unlike in the lattice case, orbits of geometrically finite subgroups do not necessarily equidistribute on the whole boundary of hyperbolic space. But rather, they may equidistribute on a fractal subset. Understanding the behaviour of these orbits near the boundary is central to Patterson-Sullivan theory and much further work. Our theorem characterizes the higher order spatial statistics and thus addresses a very natural question. As a motivating example our work applies to sphere packings (in any dimension) which are invariant under the action of such discrete subgroups. At the end of the paper we show how this statistical characterization can be used to prove convergence of moments and to write down the limiting formula for the two-point correlation function and nearest neighbor distribution. Moreover we establish an formula for the 2 dimensional limiting gap distribution (and cumulative gap distribution) which was not known previously even in the lattice case.

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