Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2009
The repartition of dense orbits of lattices in the Euclidean plane were described by Ledrappier and Nogueira. We present here an elementary description of the gaps appearing in the experimentations. The main idea behind this description is to see the Euclidean plane as the space of (upper triangular) unipotent orbits in SL(2,ℝ). We conclude with the remark that this analysis may be carried on in much more general settings.