McMullen's Arithmetic Chaos conjecture

Let X=T1(Γ\H)\mathcal{X}=T^1(\Gamma\backslash\mathbb{H}) be the unit tangent bundle of the modular surface. A closed geodesic is defined over a real quadratic field KK when its associated arithmetic data are defined over KK.

McMullen's Arithmetic Chaos conjecture. There is a compact subset YX\mathcal{Y}\subset\mathcal{X} such that, for every real quadratic field KK, the set of closed geodesics defined over KK and lying in Y\mathcal{Y} 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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