Kinchin theorem for integral points on quadratic varieties

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, September 15, 2008 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Nimish Shah
Speaker affiliation: 
Tata Institute/Yale University
Event description: 

We obtain an analogue the Khinchin theorem for the Diophantine approximation by integer vectors lying on a quadratic variety. The proof is based on the study of a dynamical system on a homogeneous space of the orthogonal group. We show that in this system, generic trajectories visit a family of shrinking subsets infinitely often.