A subspace theorem for manifolds

In the late 90’s Kleinbock and Margulis solved a long-standing conjecture due to Sprindzuk regarding diophantine approximation on submanifolds of R^n. Their method used homogeneous dynamics via the so-called non-divergence estimates for unipotent flows on the space of lattices. In this talk I will explain how these ideas, combined with a certain understanding of the geometry at the heart of Schmidt’s subspace theorem, in particular the notion of Harder-Narasimhan filtration, leads to a metric version of the subspace theorem, where the linear forms are allowed to depend on a parameter. This subspace theorem for manifolds allows to quickly compute certain diophantine exponents, and it leads to several generalizations of the Kleinbock-Margulis results in a variety of contexts. Joint work with Nicolas de Saxcé.