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$K$-spherical horospherical averages on the Nagao quotient: tree combinatorics and exact discrepancy

Dynamical Systems 2026-07-09 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let F=Fq( ⁣(t1) ⁣),G=SL2(F),Γ=SL2(Fq[t]),X=Γ\G, F=\mathbb{F}_q(\!(t^{-1})\!),\qquad G=\mathrm{SL}_2(F),\qquad \Gamma=\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{F}_q[t]),\qquad X=\Gamma\backslash G, and let K=SL2(O)K=\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathcal{O}), where O=Fq[ ⁣[t1] ⁣]\mathcal{O}=\mathbb{F}_q[\![t^{-1}]\!]. We study right KK-spherical averages along the upper unipotent subgroup, the horospherical subgroup associated with the standard cusp, on the Nagao lattice quotient. The basic observation is that the KK-spherical projection converts two natural dynamical families - expanding translates of compact unipotent orbits and cusp-adapted truncations of dense unipotent orbits - into the same rooted descendant problem on the Bruhat--Tits tree. In the even bipartite sector the limiting height law is the explicit probability measure ρev(0)=q1q,ρev(2m)=(q21)q2m1(m1). \rho^{\mathrm{ev}}(0)=\frac{q-1}{q},\qquad \rho^{\mathrm{ev}}(2m)=(q^2-1)q^{-2m-1}\qquad (m\ge 1). We prove an exact discrepancy formula: in the backward state the error is a pure top-shell term minus a missing tail, while in the forward state the error is a first-turn weighted sum of backward errors. These formulas give quantitative KK-spherical equidistribution for expanding translates of compact UU-orbits and for dense-orbit truncations. For compactly supported KK-spherical observables in the expanding translates of compact orbits, the discrepancy is eventually exactly zero. In the dense case the rate is controlled by the continued-fraction expansion of the boundary point attached to the orbit.

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@article{arxiv.2607.08704,
  title  = {$K$-spherical horospherical averages on the Nagao quotient: tree combinatorics and exact discrepancy},
  author = {Sanghoon Kwon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.08704},
  year   = {2026}
}

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22 pages, 6 figures