Finiteness conjecture for periodic diagonal orbits in compact sets

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Let n≥3n \geq 3 and let HH be the diagonal subgroup acting on PGL⁡n(Z)\PGL⁡n(R)\operatorname{PGL}_n(\mathbb{Z}) \backslash \operatorname{PGL}_n(\mathbb{R}). Finiteness conjecture for periodic orbits. For every compact subset Ω\Omega of

PGL⁡n(Z)\PGL⁡n(R),\operatorname{PGL}_n(\mathbb{Z}) \backslash \operatorname{PGL}_n(\mathbb{R}),

there are only finitely many periodic HH-orbits contained in Ω\Omega. The source says this follows from the bounded-orbit conjecture together with isolation results, so its conjectural status is tied to that higher-rank rigidity framework.

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Manfred Einsiedler, Elon Lindenstrauss, Philippe Michel and Akshay Venkatesh, “The distribution of periodic torus orbits on homogeneous spaces”, arXiv:math/0607815 (2006).

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