Talk
A sparse equidistribution problem for expanding horocycles on the modular surface
Talk by Prof. Dr. Claire Burrin
Date: 21.10.20 Time: 16.15 - 17.15 Room: ETH HG G 19.1
The orbits of the horocycle flow on surfaces are classified: each orbit is either dense or a closed horocycle around a cusp. In particular, expanding closed horocycles are themselves asymptotically dense, and in fact become equidistributed on the surface. The precise rate of equidistribution is of interest; on the modular surface, Zagier observed that a particular rate is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis being true. In this talk, we explore the asymptotic behavior of evenly spaced points along an expanding closed horocycle on the modular surface. In this problem, the number of sparse points is made to depend on the expansion rate, and the difficulty is that these points are no more invariant under the horocycle flow. This is based on joint work with Uri Shapira and Shucheng Yu.