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Elon Lindenstrauss

Publications and source records attributed to Elon Lindenstrauss.

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arXiv2006

The distribution of periodic torus orbits on homogeneous spaces

We prove results towards the equidistribution of certain families of periodic torus orbits on homogeneous spaces, with particular focus on the case of the diagonal torus acting on quotients of $\PGL_n(\R)$. After attaching to each periodic orbit an integral invariant (the discriminant) our results have the following flavour: certain standard conjectures about the distribution of such orbits hold up to exceptional sets of at most $O(Δ^ε)$ orbits of discriminant $\leq Δ$. The proof relies on the well-separatedness of periodic orbits together with measure rigidity for torus actions. We also give examples of sequences of periodic orbits of this action that fail to become equidistributed, even in higher rank. We give an application of our results to sharpen a theorem of Minkowski on ideal classes in totally real number fields of cubic and higher degrees.

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arXiv2005

Symbolic representations of nonexpansive group automorphisms

If $α$ is an irreducible nonexpansive ergodic automorphism of a compact abelian group $X$ (such as an irreducible nonhyperbolic ergodic toral automorphism), then $α$ has no finite or infinite state Markov partitions, and there are no nontrivial continuous embeddings of Markov shifts in $X$. In spite of this we are able to construct a symbolic space $V$ and a class of shift-invariant probability measures on $V$ each of which corresponds to an $α$-invariant probability measure on $X$. Moreover, every $α$-invariant probability measure on $X$ arises essentially in this way. The last part of the paper deals with the connection between the two-sided beta-shift $V_β$ arising from a Salem number $β$ and the nonhyperbolic ergodic toral automorphism $α$ arising from the companion matrix of the minimal polynomial of $β$, and establishes an entropy-preserving correspondence between a class of shift-invariant probability measures on $V_β$ and certain $α$-invariant probability measures on $X$. This correspondence is much weaker than, but still quite closely modelled on, the connection between the two-sided beta-shifts defined by Pisot numbers and the corresponding hyperbolic ergodic toral automorphisms.

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arXiv2005

Existence and Weyl's law for spherical cusp forms

Let G be a split adjoint semisimple group over Q and K a maximal compact subgroup of the real points G(R). We shall give a uniform, short and essentially elementary proof of the Weyl law for cusp forms on congruence quotients of G(R)/K. This proves a conjecture of Sarnak for Q-split groups, previously known only for the case of PGL(n). The key idea amounts to a new type of simple trace formula.

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arXiv2004

Rigidity of multiparameter actions

We survey some recent developments and applications of the study of the rigidity properties of natural algebraic actions of multidimensional abelian groups.

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arXiv2003

Invariant sets and measures of nonexpansive group automorphisms

We prove that the restriction of a probability measure invariant under a nonhyperbolic, ergodic and totally irreducible automorphism of a compact connected abelian group to the leaves of the central foliation is severely restricted. We also prove a topological analogue of this result: the intersection of every proper closed invariant subset with each central leaf is compact.

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arXiv1999

Entropy of convolutions on the circle

Given ergodic p-invariant measures {μ_i} on the 1-torus T=R/Z, we give a sharp condition on their entropies, guaranteeing that the entropy of the convolution \muon converges to \log p. We also prove a variant of this result for joinings of full entropy on \T^\N. In conjunction with a method of Host, this yields the following. Denote \sig_q(x) = qx\pmod{1}. Then for every p-invariant ergodic μwith positive entropy, \frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}\sig_{c_n}μconverges weak^* to Lebesgue measure as N \goesto \infty, under a certain mild combinatorial condition on {c_k}. (For instance, the condition is satisfied if p=10 and c_k=2^k+6^k or c_k=2^{2^k}.) This extends a result of Johnson and Rudolph, who considered the sequence c_k = q^k when p and q are multiplicatively independent. We also obtain the following corollary concerning Hausdorff dimension of sum sets: For any sequence {S_i} of p-invariant closed subsets of T, if \sum \dim_H(S_i) / |\log\dim_H(S_i)| = \infty, then \dim_H(S_1 + \cdots + S_n) \goesto 1.

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