Effective equidistribution of random walks
Speaker:
Timothée Bénard, Université Paris 13 / CNRS
Date and Time:
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
The Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
I will explain why a random walk on $\text{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{R})/\text{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z})$ equidistributes with an explicit rate toward the Haar measure, provided the walk is not trapped in a finite orbit and the driving measure is supported by algebraic matrices generating a Zariski-dense subgroup. The argument is based on a multislicing theorem which extends Bourgain's projection theorem and presents independent interest. Joint work with Weikun He.