Geometric results on linear actions of reductive Lie groups for applications to homogeneous dynamics

Abstract: Several problems in number theory when reformulated in terms of homogenous dynamics involve study of limiting distributions of translates of algebraically defined measures on orbits of reductive groups. The general non-divergence and linearization techniques, in view of Ratner's measure classification for unipotent flows, reduce such problems to dynamical questions about linear actions of reductive groups on finite dimensional vectors spaces. This article provides general results which resolve these linear dynamical questions in terms of natural group theoretic or geometric conditions.