Glasner property for linear group actions and their products

Abstract

A theorem of Glasner from 1979 shows that if $Y \subset \mathbb{T} = \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$ is infinite then for each $ε> 0$ there exists an integer $n$ such that $nY$ is $ε$-dense. This has been extended in various works by showing that certain irreducible linear semigroup actions on $\mathbb{T}^d$ also satisfy such a \textit{Glasner property} where each infinite set (in fact, arbitrarily large finite set) will have an $ε$-dense image under some element from the acting semigroup. We improve these works by proving a quantitative Glasner theorem for irreducible linear group actions with Zariski-connected Zariski-closure. This makes use of recent results on linear random walks on the torus. We also pose a natural question that asks whether the cartesian product of two actions satisfying the Glasner property also satisfy a Glasner property for infinite subsets which contain no two points on a common vertical or horizontal line. We answer this question affirmatively for many such Glasner actions by providing a new Glasner-type theorem for linear actions that are not irreducible, as well as polynomial versions of such results.