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Joint effective equidistribution of partial lattices in positive characteristic

Number Theory 2025-12-02 v3

Abstract

Let ν\nu be a place of a global function field KK over a finite field, with associated affine function ring RνR_\nu and completion KνK_\nu, and let 1m<d1 \leq \mathfrak{m}<\textbf{d}. The aim of this paper is to prove an effective triple joint equidistribution result for primitive partial RνR_\nu-lattices Λ\Lambda of rank m\mathfrak{m} in Kν  dK_\nu^{\;\textbf{d}} as their covolume tends to infinity: of their KνK_\nu-linear span VΛV_\Lambda in the rank-m\mathfrak{m} Grassmannian space of Kν  dK_\nu^{\;\textbf{d}}; of their shape in the modular quotient by PGLm(Rν)\operatorname{PGL}_\mathfrak{m}(R_\nu) of the Bruhat-Tits buildings of PGLm(Kν)\operatorname{PGL}_\mathfrak{m}(K_\nu); and of the shape of Λ\Lambda^\perp in the similar quotient for PGLdm(Kν)\operatorname{PGL}_{\textbf{d}-\mathfrak{m}}(K_\nu), where Λ\Lambda^\perp is the orthogonal partial RνR_\nu-lattice of rank dm\textbf{d}-\mathfrak{m} in the dual space of Kν  dK_\nu^{\;\textbf{d}}. The main tools are a new refined LU\text{LU} decomposition by blocks of elements of SLd(Kν)\operatorname{SL}_\textbf{d}(K_\nu), techniques of Gorodnik and Nevo for counting integral points in well-rounded families of subsets of algebraic groups, and computations of volumes of various homogeneous spaces associated with partial RνR_\nu-lattices.

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@article{arxiv.2404.04368,
  title  = {Joint effective equidistribution of partial lattices in positive characteristic},
  author = {Tal Horesh and Frédéric Paulin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04368},
  year   = {2025}
}