Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly

Volume 19 (2023)

Number 2

Genericity on submanifolds and application to universal hitting time statistics

Pages: 529 – 573

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/PAMQ.2023.v19.n2.a5

Author

Han Zhang (Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

Abstract

We investigate Birkhoff genericity on submanifolds of homogeneous space $X = SL_d (\mathbb{R}) \ltimes (\mathbb{R}^d)^k / SL_d (\mathbb{Z}) \ltimes (\mathbb{Z}^d)^k$, where $d \geq 2$ and $k \geq 1$ are fixed integers. The submanifolds we consider are parameterized by unstable horospherical subgroup $U$ of a diagonal flow $a_t$ in $SL_d (\mathbb{R})$. As long as the intersection of the submanifold with any affine rational subspace has Lebesgue measure zero, we show that the trajectory of $a_t$ along Lebesgue almost every point on the submanifold gets equidistributed on $X$. This generalizes the previous work of Frączek, Shi and Ulcigrai in [8]. Following the scheme developed by Dettmann, Marklof and Strömbergsson in [3], we then deduce an application to universal hitting time statistics for integrable flows.

Keywords

homogeneous dynamics, ergodic theory, equidistribution, diagonal flow

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

Primary 37A17. Secondary 37A50, 37J35.

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Received 29 April 2022

Received revised 28 July 2022

Accepted 11 August 2022

Published 7 April 2023