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Asymptotic distribution of values of isotropic quadratic forms at $S$-integral points

Dynamical Systems 2017-10-02 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We prove an analogue of a theorem of Eskin-Margulis-Mozes: suppose we are given a finite set of places SS over Q\mathbb{Q} containing the archimedean place and excluding the prime 22, an irrational isotropic form q{{\mathbf q}} of rank n4n\geq 4 on QS\mathbb{Q}_S, a product of pp-adic intervals IpI_p, and a product Ω\Omega of star-shaped sets. We show that unless n=4n=4 and q{{\mathbf q}} is split in at least one place, the number of SS-integral vectors vTΩ{\mathbf v} \in {\mathsf{T}} \Omega satisfying simultaneously q(v)Ip{\mathbf q}( {\mathbf v} ) \in I_p for pSp \in S is asymptotically given by λ(q,Ω)IpSfTpn2, \lambda({\mathbf q}, \Omega) | I| \cdot \prod_{p\in S_f} T_p^{n-2}, as T{\mathsf{T}} goes to infinity, where I| I | is the product of Haar measures of the pp-adic intervals IpI_p. The proof uses dynamics of unipotent flows on SS-arithmetic homogeneous spaces; in particular, it relies on an equidistribution result for certain translates of orbits applied to test functions with a controlled growth at infinity, specified by an SS-arithmetic variant of the α \alpha-function introduced in the work of Eskin, Margulis, Mozes, and an SS-arithemtic version of a theorem of Dani-Margulis.

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@article{arxiv.1605.02490,
  title  = {Asymptotic distribution of values of isotropic quadratic forms at $S$-integral points},
  author = {Jiyoung Han and Seonhee Lim and Keivan Mallahi-Karai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.02490},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

The article will appear in Journal of Modern Dynamics. In the revised version, several typos have been fixed. Moreover, another preprint (arXiv:1605.02436) has been incorporated