Optimal Diophantine exponents for SL(n)

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Abstract: The emph{Diophantine exponent} of action of a group on a homogeneous space, as defined by Ghosh, Gorodnik, and Nevo, quantifies the complexity of approximating the points of the homogeneous space by the points on an orbit of the group. We show that the Diophantine exponent of the mathrmSLn(mathbbZ[1/p])-action on the generalized upper half-space mathrmSLn(mathbbR)/mathrmSOn(mathbbR) is emph{optimal}, i.e. equals one, under the assumption of emph{Sarnak's density hypothesis}. Unconditionally, we show that the exponent lies in [1,1+O(1/n)], substantially improving upon Ghosh-Gorodnik-Nevo's method which gives the above range to be [1,n−1]. The result, in particular, shows that the optimality of Diophantine exponents can be obtained even when the emph{temperedness} of the underlying representations, the crucial assumption in Ghosh-Gorodnik-Nevo's work, is not satisfied. The proof uses the spectral decomposition of the homogeneous space and bounds on the local L2-norms of the Eisenstein series.




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