陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Distinguished Lecture Series II: Gregory Margulis, “Homogeneous dynamics and number theory」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Today, Prof. Margulis continued his lecture series, focusing on two specific examples of homogeneous dynamics applications to number theory, namely counting lattice points on algebraic varieties, and quantitative versions of the Oppenheim conjecture. (Due to lack of time, the third application mentioned in the previous lecture , namely metric theory of Diophantine approximation, was not covered.)

Let be an algebraic variety defined over . In general, the question of counting the lattice points is pretty much intractible (even determining whether is non-empty is essentially Hilbert’s tenth problem , known to be undecidable by Matiyasevich’s theorem ). However, the problem looks much more tractable if V is homogeneous , in the sense that there exists a reductive subgroup G of , defined over , which preserves V and acts transitively on V (thus for some ). A general quest

已知结果和反例

Thanks to a classical theorem of Borel and Harish-Chandra, it is known in the above setting that the integer points of V split as the finite union of orbits of the discrete group . So, modulo the problem of effectively computing these orbts (which is admittedly a non-trivial task), the question boils down to obtaining asymptotics for as for some orbit for some .

Naively, one expects a discrete count such as to asymptotically resemble its continuous counterpart (much as, say, the number of lattice points in a ball of radius R is known by elementary volume packing arguments going back to Gauss to asymptotically be equivalent to the volume of that ball). In this setting, the intuition would be formalised as follows. We can express the homogeneous space V as , where H is the stabiliser of . Then we can pull back to to create the ball-lik

证明或构造的主线

In principle, the computation of the continuous volume is “just” a computation of a several variable calculus integral, and so (1) provides an asymptotic for the growth of lattice points in the orbit .

A significant result in this subject is the work of Eskin, Mozes, and Shah , who showed that the asymptotic (1) held under the assumption that is a maximal proper connected -subgroup of G. The key step in their argument is to show that for any sequence going to infinity, that the translated measures converge weakly to (i.e. become asymptotically equidistributed).

阅读时建议盯住的点

As a typical illustration of their results, consider the variety

of integer matrices with a fixed characteristic polynomial p, which should of course be monic of degree n and with integer coefficients. We will also take and assume p irreducible. Then as a corollary of the general theorem of Eskin, Mozes, and Shah, is asymptotically , where is explicitly computable in terms of various algebraic number theory data arising from p. For instance, if p splits over and has a root such that is the ring of integers in , then

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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