Lattice points for products of upper half planes

Abstract

Let $\Gamma$ be an irreducible lattice in $\PSL_2(\RR)^d$ ($d\in\NN$) and $z$ a point in the $d$-fold direct product of the upper half plane. We study the discrete set of componentwise distances ${\bf D}(\Gm,z)\subset \RR^d$ defined in (1). We prove asymptotic results on the number of $\gm\in\Gm$ such that $d(z,\gamma z$ is contained in strips expanding in some directions and also in expanding hypercubes. The results on the counting in expanding strips are new. The results on expanding hypercubes % improve the error terms improve the existing error terms (by Gorodnick and Nevo) and generalize the Selberg error term for $d=1$. We give an asymptotic formula for the number of lattice points $\gamma z$ such that the hyperbolic distance in each of the factors satisfies $d((\gamma z)_j, z_j)\le T$. The error term, as $T \to \infty$ generalizes the error term given by Selberg for $d=1$, also we describe how the counting function depends on $z$. We also prove asymptotic results when the distance satisfies $A_j \le d((\gamma z)_j, z_j) < B_j$, with fixed $A_j < B_j$ in some factors, while in the remaining factors $0 \le d((\gamma z)_j, z_j) \le T$ is satisfied.