Author:
Ciobotaru Corina,Finkelshtein Vladimir,Sert Cagri
Abstract
AbstractLet G be a large group acting on a biregular tree T and $$\Gamma \le G$$
Γ
≤
G
a geometrically finite lattice. In an earlier work, the authors classified orbit closures of the action of the horospherical subgroups on $$G/\Gamma $$
G
/
Γ
. In this article we show that there is no escape of mass and use this to prove that, in fact, dense orbits equidistribute to the Haar measure on $$G/\Gamma $$
G
/
Γ
. On the other hand, we show that new dynamical phenomena for horospherical actions appear on quotients by non-geometrically finite lattices: we give examples of non-geometrically finite lattices where an escape of mass phenomenon occurs and where the orbital averages along a Følner sequence do not converge. In the last part, as a by-product of our methods, we show that projections to $$\Gamma \backslash T$$
Γ
\
T
of the uniform distributions on large spheres in the tree T converge to a natural probability measure on $$\Gamma \backslash T$$
Γ
\
T
. Finally, we apply this equidistribution result to a lattice point counting problem to obtain counting asymptotics with exponential error term.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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