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Consider \(G=\mathrm{SL}_{ d }({\mathbb {R}})\) and \( \Gamma =\mathrm{SL}_{ d }({\mathbb {Z}})\). It was recently shown by the second-named author (Shi, Pointwise equidistribution for one parameter diagonalizable group action on homogeneous space (preprint), arXiv:1405.2067, 2014) that for some diagonal subgroups \(\{g_t\}{\subset } G\) and unipotent subgroups \(U{\subset } G\), \(g_t\)-trajectories of almost all points on all U-orbits on \(G/\Gamma \) are equidistributed with respect to continuous compactly supported functions \(\varphi \) on \(G/\Gamma \). In this paper we strengthen this result in two directions: by exhibiting an error rate of equidistribution when \(\varphi \) is smooth and compactly supported, and by proving equidistribution with respect to certain unbounded functions, namely Siegel transforms of Riemann integrable functions on \(\mathbb {R}^d\). For the first part we use a method based on effective double equidistribution of \(g_t\)-translates of U-orbits, which generalizes the main result of Kleinbock and Margulis (On effective equidistribution of expanding translates of certain orbits in the space of lattices, Number theory, analysis and geometry 385–396, 2012). The second part is based on Schmidt’s results on counting of lattice points. Number-theoretic consequences involving spiraling of lattice approximations, extending recent work of Athreya et al. (J Lond Math Soc 91(2):383–404, 2015), are derived using the equidistribution result.
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The support of Grants NSFC (11201388), NSFC (11271278), ERC starter Grant DLGAPS 279893, NSF DMS-1101320, NSF 0932078 000 and BSF 2010428 is gratefully acknowledged. We would like to thank Manfred Einsiedler for a discussion of effective double equidistribution, Marc Pollicott for pointing us to references [9, 10], and MSRI for its hospitality during Spring 2015.
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Kleinbock, D., Shi, R. & Weiss, B. Pointwise equidistribution with an error rate and with respect to unbounded functions. Math. Ann. 367, 857–879 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-016-1404-3
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