Positive Entropy Using Hecke Operators at a Single Place

Abstract

We prove the following statement: Let $X=\text{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z})\backslash \text{SL}_n(\mathbb{R})$, and consider the standard action of the diagonal group $A 0$ is some positive constant. Then any regular element $a\in A$ acts on $\mu$ with positive entropy on almost every ergodic component. We also prove a similar result for lattices coming from division algebras over $\mathbb{Q}$, and derive a quantum unique ergodicity result for the associated locally symmetric spaces. This generalizes a result of Brooks and Lindenstrauss.