Bourgain–Kontorovich local-global conjecture for continued-fraction semigroups

Let AN\mathcal{A}\subseteq\mathbb{N} be finite, let vv be the primitive vector from the associated orbit, and let LL be a linear functional. Define

ΓA:=(011a):aA+SL(2,Z),\Gamma_{\mathcal{A}}:=\left\langle \begin{pmatrix}0&1\\1&a\end{pmatrix}:a\in\mathcal{A}\right\rangle^+\cap\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z}),

and let δA\delta_{\mathcal{A}} be the Hausdorff dimension of its corresponding limit set. Suppose that ΓA\Gamma_{\mathcal{A}} is Zariski dense in SL(2)\operatorname{SL}(2) and that L(ΓAv)L(\Gamma_{\mathcal{A}}v) is infinite. Bourgain–Kontorovich local-global conjecture. In terms of a growing parameter XX, every admissible integer nXn\asymp X has multiplicity X2δA1o(1)X^{2\delta_{\mathcal{A}}-1-o(1)} in L(ΓAv)L(\Gamma_{\mathcal{A}}v). This predicts the expected multiplicity for locally admissible values in the thin-orbit setting; the paper studies reciprocity obstructions showing that such local-global expectations can fail.

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Primary source

James Rickards and Katherine E. Stange, “Reciprocity obstructions in semigroup orbits in SL(2, Z)”, arXiv:2401.01860 (2025).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2103.14594, arXiv:1704.02640, arXiv:1310.3772.

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