Lattice counting problem

Abstract

We study the error of the number of unimodular lattice points that fall into a dilated and translated parallelogram. By using an article from Skriganov, we see that this error can be compared to an ergodic sum that involves the discrete geodesic flow over the space of unimodular lattices. With the right normalization, we show, by using tools from a previous work of Fayad and Dolgopyat, that a certain point process converges in law towards a Poisson process and deduce that the ergodic sum converges towards a Cauchy centered law when the unimodular lattice is distributed according to the normalized Haar measure. Strong from this experience, we apply the same kind of approach, with more difficulties, to the study of the asymptotic behaviour of the error and show that this error, normalized by $\log(t)$ with $t$ the factor of dilatation of the parallelogram, also converges in law towards a Cauchy centered law when the dilatation parameter tends to infinity and when the lattice and the vector of translation are random. In a next article, we will show that, in the case of a ball in dimension $d$ superior or equal to $2$, the error, normalized by $t^{\frac{d-1}{2}}$ with $t$ the factor of dilatation of the ball, converges in law when $t \rightarrow \infty$ and the limit law admits a moment of order $1$.