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The discrepancy of $(n_kx)$ with respect to certain probability measures

Number Theory 2019-06-06 v2

Abstract

Let (nk)k=1(n_k)_{k=1}^{\infty} be a lacunary sequence of integers. We show that if μ\mu is a probability measure on [0,1)[0,1) such that μ^(t)ctη|\widehat{\mu}(t)|\leq c|t|^{-\eta}, then for μ\mu-almost all xx, the discrepancy DN(nkx)D_N(n_kx) satisfies \begin{equation*} \frac{1}{4} \leq \limsup_{N\to\infty}\frac{N D_N(n_kx)}{\sqrt{N\log\log N}} \leq C \end{equation*} for some constant C>0C>0, proving a conjecture of Haynes, Jensen and Kristensen. This allows a slight improvement on their previous result on products of the form qqαqβγq\|q\alpha\| \|q\beta-\gamma\| .

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@article{arxiv.1812.06293,
  title  = {The discrepancy of $(n_kx)$ with respect to certain probability measures},
  author = {Niclas Technau and Agamemnon Zafeiropoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.06293},
  year   = {2019}
}