Ratner's landmark equidstribution results for unipotent flows
have had dramatic applications in many mathematical areas. Recently
there has been considerable progress in the long sought for goal of
getting effective equidistribution results for...
(Joint with Samuel Grushevsky, Gabriele Mondello, Riccardo
Salvati Manni) We determine the maximal dimension of a compact
subvariety of the moduli space of principally polarized abelian
varieties Ag for any value of g. For g<16 the dimension is g−1,
while for g≥16, it is determined by the larged dimensional compact
Shimura subvariety, which we determine. Our methods rely on
deforming the boundary using special varieties, and functional
transcendence theory.
