Bounds on the Hausdorff dimension of Teichm\"uller horocycle flow orbit closures

Abstract

We show that the Hausdorff dimension of any proper Teichm\"uller horocycle flow orbit closure on any $\mathrm{SL}{(2,\mathbf{R})}$-invariant subvariety of Abelian or quadratic differentials is bounded away from the dimension of the subvariety in terms of the polynomial mixing rate of the Teichm\"uller horocycle flow on the subvariety. The proof is based on abstract methods for measurable flows adapted from work of Bourgain and Katz on sparse ergodic theorems.