On the Distribution of the Number of Lattice Points in Norm Balls on the Heisenberg Groups

Abstract

We investigate the fluctuations in the number of integral lattice points on the Heisenberg groups which lie inside a Cygan-Kor{\'a}nyi norm ball of large radius. Let $\mathcal{E}_{q}(x)=\big|\mathbb{Z}^{2q+1}\cap\delta_{x}\mathcal{B}\big|-\textit{vol}\big(\mathcal{B}\big)x^{2q+2}$ denote the error term which occurs for this lattice point counting problem on the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}_{q}$, where $\mathcal{B}$ is the unit ball in the Cygan-Kor{\'a}nyi norm and $\delta_{x}$ is the Heisenberg-dilation by $x>0$. For $q\geq3$ we consider the suitably normalized error term $\mathcal{E}_{q}(x)/x^{2q-1}$, and prove it has a limiting value distribution which is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We show that the defining density for this distribution, denoted by $\mathcal{P}_{q}(\alpha)$, can be extended to the whole complex plane $\mathbb{C}$ as an entire function of $\alpha$ and satisfies for any non-negative integer $j\geq0$ and any $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$, $|\alpha|>\alpha_{q,j}$, the bound: \begin{equation*} \begin{split} \big|\mathcal{P}^{(j)}_{q}(\alpha)\big|\leq\exp{\Big(-|\alpha|^{4-\beta/\log\log{|\alpha|}}\Big)} {split} {equation*} where $\beta>0$ is an absolute constant. In addition, we give an explicit formula for the $j$-th integral moment of the density $\mathcal{P}_{q}(\alpha)$ for any integer $j\geq1$.