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Dichotomy Results for the L1 Norm of the Discrepancy Function

Number Theory 2015-09-02 v2

Abstract

It is a well-known conjecture in the theory of irregularities of distribution that the L1 norm of the discrepancy function of an N-point set satisfies the same asymptotic lower bounds as its L^2 norm. In dimension d=2 this fact has been established by Halasz, while in higher dimensions the problem is wide open. In this note, we establish a series of dichotomy-type results which state that if the L^1 norm of the discrepancy function is too small (smaller than the conjectural bound), then the discrepancy function has to be large in some other function space.

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@article{arxiv.1306.1761,
  title  = {Dichotomy Results for the L1 Norm of the Discrepancy Function},
  author = {Gagik Amirkhanyan and Dmitriy Bilyk and Michael T Lacey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.1761},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages. Accepted to JMAA

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