McMullen's Arithmetic Chaos conjecture
McMullen's Arithmetic Chaos conjecture
Let be the unit tangent bundle of the modular surface. A closed geodesic is defined over a real quadratic field when its associated arithmetic data are defined over .
McMullen's Arithmetic Chaos conjecture. There is a compact subset such that, for every real quadratic field , the set of closed geodesics defined over and lying in has positive entropy.
McMullen posed this as an arithmetic analogue of a dynamical-chaos problem concerning closed geodesics that remain in a compact part of the modular surface. The supplied text gives no resolution.
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Primary source
Alex Kontorovich, “Applications of Thin Orbits”, arXiv:1606.06325 (2016).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1310.7190.
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