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Poissonian Pair Correlation in Higher Dimensions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-07-16 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

Let (xn)n=1(x_n)_{n=1}^{\infty} be a sequence on the torus T\mathbb{T} (normalized to length 1). A sequence (xn)(x_n) is said to have Poissonian pair correlation if, for all s>0s>0, limN1N#{1mnN:xmxnsN}=2s. \lim_{N \rightarrow \infty}{ \frac{1}{N} \# \left\{ 1 \leq m \neq n \leq N: |x_m - x_n| \leq \frac{s}{N} \right\}} = 2s. It is known that this implies uniform distribution of the sequence (xn)(x_n). Hinrichs, Kaltenb\"ock, Larcher, Stockinger \& Ullrich extended this result to higher dimensions and showed that sequences (xn)(x_n) in [0,1]d[0,1]^d that satisfy, for all s>0s>0, limN1N#{1mnN:xmxnsN}=(2s)d. \lim_{N \rightarrow \infty}{ \frac{1}{N} \# \left\{ 1 \leq m \neq n \leq N: \|x_m - x_n\|_{\infty} \leq \frac{s}{N} \right\}} = (2s)^d. are also uniformly distributed. We prove the same result for the extension by the Euclidean norm: if a sequence (xn)(x_n) in Td\mathbb{T}^d satisfies, for all s>0s > 0, limN1N#{1mnN:xmxn2sN}=ωdsd \lim_{N \rightarrow \infty}{ \frac{1}{N} \# \left\{ 1 \leq m \neq n \leq N: \|x_m - x_n\|_{2} \leq \frac{s}{N} \right\}} = \omega_d s^d where ωd\omega_d is the volume of the unit ball, then (xn)(x_n) is uniformly distributed. Our approach shows that Poissonian Pair Correlation implies an exponential sum estimate that resembles and implies the Weyl criterion.

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@article{arxiv.1812.10458,
  title  = {Poissonian Pair Correlation in Higher Dimensions},
  author = {Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.10458},
  year   = {2019}
}
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