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Glasner property for linear group actions and their products

Dynamical Systems 2022-11-01 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

A theorem of Glasner from 1979 shows that if YT=R/ZY \subset \mathbb{T} = \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} is infinite then for each ϵ>0\epsilon > 0 there exists an integer nn such that nYnY is ϵ\epsilon-dense. This has been extended in various works by showing that certain irreducible linear semigroup actions on Td\mathbb{T}^d also satisfy such a \textit{Glasner property} where each infinite set (in fact, arbitrarily large finite set) will have an ϵ\epsilon-dense image under some element from the acting semigroup. We improve these works by proving a quantitative Glasner theorem for irreducible linear group actions with Zariski-connected Zariski-closure. This makes use of recent results on linear random walks on the torus. We also pose a natural question that asks whether the cartesian product of two actions satisfying the Glasner property also satisfy a Glasner property for infinite subsets which contain no two points on a common vertical or horizontal line. We answer this question affirmatively for many such Glasner actions by providing a new Glasner-type theorem for linear actions that are not irreducible, as well as polynomial versions of such results.

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@article{arxiv.2210.16973,
  title  = {Glasner property for linear group actions and their products},
  author = {Kamil Bulinski and Alexander Fish},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16973},
  year   = {2022}
}

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