$K$-spherical horospherical averages on the Nagao quotient: tree combinatorics and exact discrepancy
Abstract
Let and let , where . We study right -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 -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 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 -spherical equidistribution for expanding translates of compact -orbits and for dense-orbit truncations. For compactly supported -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