The aim of this paper is to establish a Ratner-type equidistribution theorem for orbits on homogeneous spaces associated with 2-nilpotent locally compact Polish groups under the action of a countable discrete abelian group. We apply this result to establish the existence of triple restricted sumsets in subsets of positive density in arbitrary countable discrete abelian groups, subject to a necessary finiteness condition.
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