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Irregularities of distribution and geometry of planar convex sets

Metric Geometry 2021-04-27 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We consider a planar convex body CC and we prove several analogs of Roth's theorem on irregularities of distribution. When C\partial C is C\mathcal{C}% ^{2} regardless of curvature, we prove that for every set PN\mathcal{P}_{N} of NN points in T2\mathbb{T}^{2} we have the sharp bound 01T2card(PN(λC+t))λ2NC2 dtdλcN1/2  . \int_{0}^{1}\int_{\mathbb{T}^{2}}\left\vert \mathrm{card}\left( \mathcal{P}_{N}\mathcal{\cap}\left( \lambda C+t\right) \right) -\lambda ^{2}N\left\vert C\right\vert \right\vert ^{2}~dtd\lambda\geqslant cN^{1/2}\;. When C\partial C is only piecewise C2\mathcal{C}^{2} and is not a polygon we prove the sharp bound% 01T2card(PN(λC+t))λ2NC2 dtdλcN2/5. \int_{0}^{1}\int_{\mathbb{T}^{2}}\left\vert \mathrm{card}\left( \mathcal{P}_{N}\mathcal{\cap}\left( \lambda C+t\right) \right) -\lambda ^{2}N\left\vert C\right\vert \right\vert ^{2}~dtd\lambda\geqslant cN^{2/5}. We also give a whole range of intermediate sharp results between N2/5N^{2/5} and N1/2N^{1/2}. Our proofs depend on a lemma of Cassels-Montgomery, on ad hoc constructions of finite point sets, and on a geometric type estimate for the average decay of the Fourier transform of the characteristic function of CC.

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@article{arxiv.2104.12017,
  title  = {Irregularities of distribution and geometry of planar convex sets},
  author = {Luca Brandolini and Giancarlo Travaglini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12017},
  year   = {2021}
}