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The distribution of spacings of real-valued lacunary sequences modulo one

Number Theory 2021-08-03 v1

Abstract

Let (an)n=1\left(a_{n}\right)_{n=1}^{\infty} be a lacunary sequence of positive real numbers. Rudnick and Technau showed that for almost all αR\alpha\in\mathbb{R}, the pair correlation of (αan)n=1\left(\alpha a_{n}\right)_{n=1}^{\infty} mod 1 is Poissonian. We show that all higher correlations and hence the nearest-neighbour spacing distribution are Poissonian as well, thereby extending a result of Rudnick and Zaharescu to real-valued sequences.

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@article{arxiv.2108.00431,
  title  = {The distribution of spacings of real-valued lacunary sequences modulo one},
  author = {Sneha Chaubey and Nadav Yesha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.00431},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages