The horocycle flow at prime times
Number Theory
2014-06-03 v4 Dynamical Systems
Abstract
We prove that the orbit of a non-periodic point at prime values of the horocycle flow in the modular surface is dense in a set of positive measure. For some special orbits we also prove that they are dense in the whole space (assuming the Ramanujan/Selberg conjectures for GL(2)/Q). In the process, we derive an effective version of Dani's Theorem for the (discrete) horocycle flow.
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@article{arxiv.1110.0777,
title = {The horocycle flow at prime times},
author = {P. Sarnak and A. Ubis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.0777},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
54 pages, to appear in JMPA. Numerous small changes made in the light of comments from the referees, the most important of them being the modification of the definition of Lipschitz norm