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We show that dynamical and counting results characteristic of negatively-curved Riemannian geometry, or more generally CAT($-1$) or rank-one CAT(0) spaces, also hold for rank-one properly convex projective structures, equipped with their Hilbert metrics, admitting finite Sullivan measures built from appropriate conformal densities. In particular, this includes geometrically finite convex projective structures. More specifically, with respect to the Sullivan measure, the Hilbert geodesic flow is strongly mixing, and orbits and primitive closed geodesics equidistribute, allowing us to asymptotically enumerate these objects.
We determine the Krieger type of nonsingular Bernoulli actions $G curvearrowright prod_{g in G} ({0,1},mu_g)$. When $G$ is abelian, we do this for arbitrary marginal measures $mu_g$. We prove in particular that the action is never of type II$_infty$ if $G$ is abelian and not locally finite, answering Krengels question for $G = mathbb{Z}$. When $G$ is locally finite, we prove that type II$_infty$ does arise. For arbitrary countable groups, we assume that the marginal measures stay away from $0$ and $1$. When $G$ has only one end, we prove that the Krieger type is always I, II$_1$ or III$_1$. When $G$ has more than one end, we show that other types always arise. Finally, we solve the conjecture of [VW17] by proving that a group $G$ admits a Bernoulli action of type III$_1$ if and only if $G$ has nontrivial first $L^2$-cohomology.
We show in prime dimension that for two non-commuting totally irreducible toral automorphisms the set of points that equidistribute under the first map but have non-dense orbit under the second has full Hausdorff dimension. In non-prime dimension the argument fails only if the automorphisms have strong algebraic relations.
We show that, under finitely many ergodicity assumptions, any multicorrelation sequence defined by invertible measure preserving $mathbb{Z}^d$-actions with multivariable integer polynomial iterates is the sum of a nilsequence and a null sequence, extending a recent result of the second author. To this end, we develop a new seminorm bound estimate for multiple averages by improving the results in a previous work of the first, third and fourth authors. We also use this approach to obtain new criteria for joint ergodicity of multiple averages with multivariable polynomial iterates on $mathbb{Z}^{d}$-systems.
Generalized polynomials are mappings obtained from the conventional polynomials by the use of operations of addition, multiplication and taking the integer part. Extending the classical theorem of H. Weyl on equidistribution of polynomials, we show that a generalized polynomial $q(n)$ has the property that the sequence $(q(n) lambda)_{n in mathbb{Z}}$ is well distributed $bmod , 1$ for all but countably many $lambda in mathbb{R}$ if and only if $limlimits_{substack{|n| rightarrow infty n otin J}} |q(n)| = infty$ for some (possibly empty) set $J$ having zero density in $mathbb{Z}$. We also prove a version of this theorem along the primes (which may be viewed as an extension of classical results of I. Vinogradov and G. Rhin). Finally, we utilize these results to obtain new examples of sets of recurrence and van der Corput sets.
We confirm a conjecture of Jens Marklof regarding the equidistribution of certain sparse collections of points on expanding horospheres. These collections are obtained by intersecting the expanded horosphere with a certain manifold of complementary dimension and turns out to be of arithmetic nature. This equidistribution result is then used along the lines suggested by Marklof to give an analogue of a result of W. Schmidt regarding the distribution of shapes of lattices orthogonal to integer vectors.