Prime and almost prime integral points on principal homogeneous spaces

Acta Mathematica

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 361-402

  Nevo, Amos ^a   Sarnak, Peter ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

affine sieve; arithmetic lattices; lattice points; mean ergodic theorem; prime numbers; principal homogeneous spaces; semisimple groups; spectral gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650234932     PISSN: 00015962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11511-010-0057-4     Document Type: Article

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