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Convergence of measures under diagonal actions on homogeneous spaces

Dynamical Systems 2014-07-18 v5 Number Theory

Abstract

Let λ\lambda be a probability measure on Tn1\mathbb T^{n-1} where n=2n=2 or 3. Suppose λ\lambda is invariant, ergodic and has positive entropy with respect to the linear transformation defined by a hyperbolic matrix. We get a measure μ\mu on SLn(Z)\SLn(R)SL_n(\mathbb Z)\backslash SL_n(\mathbb R) by putting λ\lambda on some unstable horospherical orbit of the right translation of at=diag(et,...,et,e(n1)t)a_t=\mathrm{diag}(e^t,..., e^t, e^{-(n-1)t}) (t>0)(t>0). We prove that if the average of μ\mu with respect to the flow ata_t has a limit, then it must be a scalar multiple of the probability Haar measure. As an application we show that if the entropy of λ\lambda is large, then Dirichlet's theorem is not improvable λ\lambda almost surely.

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@article{arxiv.1103.1244,
  title  = {Convergence of measures under diagonal actions on homogeneous spaces},
  author = {Ronggang Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1244},
  year   = {2014}
}

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