Lattice points in thickened parabolas and rational points near hypersurfaces
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| author | Smith, Alexander |
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| contents | Among the nondegenerate C^4 hypersurfaces M in R^n, we characterize the rational quadrics as the hypersurfaces that are the least well approximated by rational points. Given M other than a rational quadric, we prove a heuristically sharp lower bound for the number of rational points very near M, improving the sensitivity of prior results of Beresnevich and Huang.
Our methods are dynamical, and rely on an application of Ratner's theorems to 1-parameter unipotent subgroups U of SL_n(R) such that u - Id has rank at most 2 for every u in U. As part of our work, we study the algebraic subgroups of SL_n(Q) whose collection of real points can contain such a subgroup. |
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| spellingShingle | Lattice points in thickened parabolas and rational points near hypersurfaces Smith, Alexander Number Theory Dynamical Systems 37A44, 11K60 Among the nondegenerate C^4 hypersurfaces M in R^n, we characterize the rational quadrics as the hypersurfaces that are the least well approximated by rational points. Given M other than a rational quadric, we prove a heuristically sharp lower bound for the number of rational points very near M, improving the sensitivity of prior results of Beresnevich and Huang. Our methods are dynamical, and rely on an application of Ratner's theorems to 1-parameter unipotent subgroups U of SL_n(R) such that u - Id has rank at most 2 for every u in U. As part of our work, we study the algebraic subgroups of SL_n(Q) whose collection of real points can contain such a subgroup. |
| title | Lattice points in thickened parabolas and rational points near hypersurfaces |
| topic | Number Theory Dynamical Systems 37A44, 11K60 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00202 |