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Discretely shrinking targets in moduli space

Dynamical Systems 2022-07-07 v2

Abstract

We consider the discrete shrinking target problem for Teichm\"uller geodesic flow on the moduli space of abelian or quadratic differentials and prove that the discrete geodesic trajectory of almost every differential will hit a shrinking family of targets infinitely often provided the measures of the targets are not summable. This result applies to any ergodic SL(2,R)\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})--invariant measure and any nested family of spherical targets. Under stronger conditions on the targets, we moreover prove that almost every differential will eventually always hit the targets. As an application, we obtain a logarithm law describing the rate at which generic discrete trajectories accumulate on a given point in moduli space. These results build on work of Kelmer and generalize theorems of Aimino, Nicol, and Todd.

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@article{arxiv.1909.05817,
  title  = {Discretely shrinking targets in moduli space},
  author = {Spencer Dowdall and Grace Work},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05817},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v2: 18 pages, no figures; final version incorporating referee comments; to appear in Geometriae Dedicata

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:13:46.992Z