Linnik's problem in fiber bundles over quadratic homogeneous varieties

Abstract

We compute the statistics of $SL_{d}(\mathbb{Z})$ matrices lying on level sets of an integral polynomial defined on $SL_{d}(\mathbb{R})$, a result that is a variant of the well known theorem proved by Linnik about the equidistribution of radially projected integral vectors from a large sphere into the unit sphere. Using the above result we generalize the work of Aka, Einsiedler and Shapira in various directions. For example, we compute the joint distribution of the residue classes modulo $q$ and the properly normalized orthogonal lattices of primitive integral vectors lying on the level set $-(x_{1}^{2}+x_{2}^{2}+x_{3}^{2})+x_{4}^{2}=N$ as $N\to\infty$, where the normalized orthogonal lattices sit in a submanifold of the moduli space of rank-$3$ discrete subgroups of $\mathbb{R}^{4}$.