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Shrinking target horospherical equidistribution via translated Farey sequences

Dynamical Systems 2023-08-15 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

For a certain diagonal flow on SL(d,Z)\SL(d,R)\operatorname{SL}(d, \mathbb{Z}) \backslash \operatorname{SL}(d, \mathbb{R}) where d2d \geq 2, we show that any bounded subset (with measure zero boundary) of the horosphere or a translated horosphere equidistributes, under a suitable normalization, on a target shrinking into the cusp. This type of equidistribution is shrinking target horospherical equidistribution (STHE), and we show STHE for several types of shrinking targets. Our STHE results extend known results for d=2d=2 and L\PSL(2,R)\mathcal{L} \backslash \operatorname{PSL}(2, \mathbb{R}) where L\mathcal{L} is any cofinite Fuchsian group with at least one cusp. The two key tools needed to prove our STHE results for the horosphere are a renormalization technique and Marklof's result on the equidistribution of the Farey sequence on distinguished sections. For our STHE results for translated horospheres, we introduce translated Farey sequences, develop some of their geometric and dynamical properties, generalize Marklof's result by proving the equidistribution of translated Farey sequences for the same distinguished sections, and use this equidistribution of translated Farey sequences along with the renormalization technique to prove our STHE results for translated horospheres.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12207,
  title  = {Shrinking target horospherical equidistribution via translated Farey sequences},
  author = {Jimmy Tseng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12207},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

61 pages. Minor changes from the previous version. This version is the accepted manuscript. To appear in Advances in Mathematics

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