We establish higher moment formulae for Siegel transforms on the space of affine unimodular lattices as well as on certain congruence quotients of $\mathrm {SL}_d({\mathbb {R}})$. As applications, we prove functional central limit theorems for lattice point counting for affine and congruence lattices using the method of moments.

In this work we deal with extreme value theory in the context of continued fractions using techniques from probability theory, ergodic theory and real analysis. We give an upper bound for the rate of convergence in the Doeblin–Iosifescu asymptotics for the exceedances of digits obtained from the regular continued fraction expansion of a number chosen randomly from $(0,1)$ according to the Gauss measure. As a consequence, we significantly improve the best known upper bound on the rate of convergence of the maxima in this case. We observe that the asymptotics of order statistics and the extremal point process can also be investigated using our methods.

We provide an extension of the transference results of Beresnevich and Velani connecting homogeneous and inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation on manifolds and provide bounds for inhomogeneous Diophantine exponents of affine subspaces and their nondegenerate submanifolds.

We study metric Diophantine approximation for function fields, specifically, the problem of improving Dirichlet's theorem in Diophantine approximation.

We study the problem of Diophantine approximation on lines in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ under certain primality restrictions.

We show that the set of points on $C^{1}$ curves which are badly approximable by rationals in a number field form a winning set in the sense of Schmidt. As a consequence, we obtain a number field version of Schmidt’s conjecture in Diophantine approximation.

We develop the metric theory of Diophantine approximation on homogeneous varieties of semisimple algebraic groups and prove results analogous to the classical Khintchine and Jarník theorems. In full generality our results establish simultaneous Diophantine approximation with respect to several completions, and Diophantine approximation over general number fields using $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}S$-algebraic integers. In several important examples, the metric results we obtain are optimal. The proof uses quantitative equidistribution properties of suitable averaging operators, which are derived from spectral bounds in automorphic representations.

the convergence case of a khintchine-type theorem for a large class of hyperplanes is obtained. the approach to the problem is from a dynamical viewpoint, and a method due to kleinbock and margulis is modified to prove the result.