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A logarithm law for automorphism groups of trees

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let \Gamma be a geometrically finite tree lattice. We prove a Khintchine-Sullivan type theorem for the Hausdorff measure of the points at infinity of the tree that are well approximated by the parabolic fixed points of G. Using Bruhat-Tits trees, an application is given for the Diophantine approximation of formal Laurent series in the variable 1/X over the finite field Fq by rational fractions in X over Fq, satisfying some congruence properties

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@article{arxiv.math/0511231,
  title  = {A logarithm law for automorphism groups of trees},
  author = {Sa'ar Hersonsky and Frederic Paulin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0511231},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages, a minor revision, to appear in Archiv der Mathematik

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