The Erdős-Szüsz-Turán distribution for equivariant processes
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The Erdős-Szüsz-Turán distribution for equivariant processes
zbMATH Open document ID: 1435.37014
DOI: 10.4171/LEM/64-1/2-1
author: Jayadev S. Athreya
author: Anish Ghosh
published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série
publication date: 2019-07-30T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01886
review text: The paper is a contribution to the probabilistic Diophantine approximation. Let \(A>0,c>0, N>0\). For each \(\alpha \in [0,1]\), denote by \(\mathrm{EST}(A,c,N)(\alpha)\) the number of solutions \(p/q\in \mathbb{Q}\) with \(\mathrm{gcd}(p,q)=1\) of \[ \left| \alpha - \frac{p}{q}\right| \leq \frac{A}{q^2}, \quad N \leq q \leq cN. \] Letting \(\alpha\) be uniformly distributed on \([0,1]\), we obtain an integer-valued random variable, denoted by \(\mathrm{EST}(A,c,N)\), whose law is \[ \mathbb{P}(\mathrm{EST}(A,c,N)=k)=Leb(\alpha\in [0,1]: \mathrm{EST}(A,c,N)(\alpha)=k). \] \textit{P. Erdős} et al. [Colloq. Math. 6, 119--126 (1958; Zbl 0087.04305)] proved that if \(A\leq \frac{c}{1+c^2}\), then \[ \lim_{N\to \infty} \mathbb{P}( \mathrm{EST}(A,c,N)>0 )= \frac{12 A}{\pi^2} \log c. \] The condition \(A\leq \frac{c}{1+c^2}\) was later loosened and removed by \textit{H. Kesten} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 103, 189--217 (1962; Zbl 0105.03805)] and by \textit{H. Kesten} and \textit{V. T. Sós} [Acta Arith. 12, 183--192 (1966; Zbl 0144.28604)] respectively. Kesten [loc. cit.] also studied the sequence of random variables \(\mathrm{K}(A,N)\) which are defined similarly by replacing the above inequalities by \[ \left| q\alpha - p \right| \leq \frac{A}{N}, \quad 1 \leq q \leq N. \] The first aim of the present paper is to find the limiting distributions of the random variables \(\mathrm{EST}(A,c,N)\) and \(\mathrm{K}(A,N)\). It is shown that the problems can be easily translated into problems on dynamics on the space of unimodular lattices and then some classical equidistribution results can be applied to reduce the mentioned questions to computing the probability of a random unimodular lattice intersecting a certain fixed region. Precisely, let \(\mu_2\) denote the Haar probability measure on the space \(X_2:=\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{R})/\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{Z})\) of unimodular lattices and for any \(\Lambda \in X_2\), let \(\Lambda_\mathrm{prim}\) be the set of primitive vectors in …
reviewed by: Lingmin Liao
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37A44
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37A17
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11K60
zbMATH DE Number: 7087298
zbMATH Keywords: Diophantine approximation
zbMATH Keywords: Erdős-Szüsz-Turán distribution
zbMATH Keywords: equidistribution theorems
zbMATH Keywords: translation surfaces
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: 1508.01886
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