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Generalised Gauss--Kuzmin Distribution for Klein sails in $\mathbb R^3$

Number Theory 2026-08-06 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The classical Gauss--Kuzmin distribution describes the asymptotic distribution of continued fraction digits. Geometrically, this may be interpreted as the equidistribution of faces of Klein sails in R2\mathbb R^2. In this paper, we establish a three-dimensional analogue of this phenomenon. We prove the equidistribution of local face structures in generic Klein sails in R3\mathbb R^3, thereby obtaining a higher-dimensional generalization of the Gauss--Kuzmin distribution. In addition, we resolve several open questions posed by Karpenkov~\cite{Ka17}. Our approach is based on homogeneous dynamics and is motivated from the work of Kontsevich and Suhov~\cite{KS99}. More precisely, we construct a cross-section for the diagonal flow on SL3(R)/SL3(Z)\operatorname{SL}_3(\mathbb R)/\operatorname{SL}_3(\mathbb Z), such that visits to the cross-section encode the geometry of three-dimensional sails. The principal technical contribution is the proof that the associated cross-sectional measure is finite, which enables us to derive the limiting face statistics.

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@article{arxiv.2608.05853,
  title  = {Generalised Gauss--Kuzmin Distribution for Klein sails in $\mathbb R^3$},
  author = {Gaurav Aggarwal and Konstantin Andritsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.05853},
  year   = {2026}
}

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