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Additive energy and the metric Poissonian property

Number Theory 2018-06-27 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let AA be a set of natural numbers. Recent work has suggested a strong link between the additive energy of AA (the number of solutions to a1+a2=a3+a4a_1 + a_2 = a_3 + a_4 with aiAa_i \in A) and the metric Poissonian property, which is a fine-scale equidistribution property for dilates of AA modulo 11. There appears to be reasonable evidence to speculate a sharp Khintchine-type threshold, that is, to speculate that the metric Poissonian property should be completely determined by whether or not a certain sum of additive energies is convergent or divergent. In this article, we primarily address the convergence theory, in other words the extent to which having a low additive energy forces a set to be metric Poissonian.

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@article{arxiv.1709.02634,
  title  = {Additive energy and the metric Poissonian property},
  author = {Thomas F. Bloom and Sam Chow and Ayla Gafni and Aled Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.02634},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Slight changes from version 1 based on comments from the referee