Effective equidistribution for some one parameter unipotent flows

Abstract

We prove effective equidistribution theorems, with polynomial error rate, for orbits of the unipotent subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$ in arithmetic quotients of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{C})$ and $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathrm{R}) \times \mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$.

The proof is based on the use of a Margulis function, tools from incidence geometry, and the spectral gap of the ambient space.

Authors

Elon Lindenstrauss

The Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ Amir Mohammadi

Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

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Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA Zhiren Wang

Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. PA

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Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD