Ergodic theory on homogeneous spaces and the calculation of lattice points in polyhedrons
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Ergodic theory on homogeneous spaces and the calculation of lattice points in polyhedrons
zbMATH Open document ID: 0976.11045
author: M. M. Skriganov
published in: Doklady Mathematics
publication date: 2001-06-19T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(\Gamma\subset\mathbb{R}^d\) be a unimodular lattice and \(O\subset\mathbb{R}^d\) be a compact domain with a piecewise smooth boundary. The problem of calculating the number of lattice points in a dilating domain by evaluating the remainder \(R(tO,\Gamma)\) as \(t\to\infty\) is a classical problem of the geometry of numbers [see \textit{P. Gruber} and \textit{C. G. Lekkerkerker}, Geometry of Numbers, 2nd ed. (1987; Zbl 0611.10017)]. From the work of Skriganov it is found that for certain \(O\) and \(\Gamma\), the remainder \(R(tO,\Gamma)\) can be logarithmically small. The basic result in this paper is as follows: Assume that \(P\subset \mathbb{R}^d\) is an arbitrary polyhedron. Then for almost all \(\Gamma\) in SL\((d, \mathbb{R})/\text{SL}(d,\mathbb{Z})\), in the sense of an invariant probability measure \(\mu\) on SL\( (d, \mathbb{R})/\text{SL}(d,\mathbb{Z})\), the relation \[ R(tP,\Gamma)\ll(\log t)^{d-I+ \varepsilon} \] is valid with an arbitrary small \(\varepsilon>0\). Thus from the metric point of view, the appearance of a logarithmically small remainder is quite typical for polyhedrons. IT is established that such anomalies in the behaviour of remainders are related with ergodic properties of certain flows on homogeneous spaces.
reviewed by: Ranjeet Sehmi
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11P21
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37A60
zbMATH DE Number: 1606033
zbMATH Keywords: ergodic flow
zbMATH Keywords: number of lattice points
zbMATH Keywords: polyhedron
zbMATH Keywords: Haar measure
zbMATH Keywords: logarithmically small remainder
zbMATH Keywords: dilation
zbMATH Keywords: homogeneous spaces
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