• DOI:10.4007/ANNALS.2012.175.2.2
Corpus ID: 2172518

The quantitative behaviour of polynomial orbits on nilmanifolds

@article{Green2007TheQB,
  title={The quantitative behaviour of polynomial orbits on nilmanifolds},
  author={B. Green and T. Tao},
  journal={arXiv: Number Theory},
  year={2007}
}

• B. Green, T. Tao
• Published 2007
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Number Theory

A theorem of Leibman asserts that a polynomial orbit $(g(1),g(2),g(3),\ldots)$ on a nilmanifold $G/\Gamma$ is always equidistributed in a union of closed sub-nilmanifolds of $G/\Gamma$. In this paper we give a quantitative version of Leibman's result, describing the uniform distribution properties of a finite polynomial orbit $(g(1),\ldots,g(N))$ in a nilmanifold. More specifically we show that there is a factorization $g = \epsilon g'\gamma$, where $\epsilon(n)$ is "smooth", $\gamma(n)$ is… Expand