Uniform Distribution Theory
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Journal

Uniform Distribution Theory


Volume
& Issue

Volume 11, Issue 2


Published
on

October 19, 2015


Pages

45-89


DOI

Article

On the Gaussian Limiting Distribution of Lattice Points in a Parallelepiped

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Authors

Mordechay B. Levin Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Bar-Ilan University 5290002, Ramat-Gan ISRAEL


Abstract

Let \( \Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^s \) be a lattice obtained from a module in a totally real algebraic number field. Let \( \mathcal{R}(\theta, \mathbf{N}) \) be the error term in the lattice point problem for the parallelepiped \( [-\theta_1 N_1, \theta_1 N_1] \times \cdots \times [-\theta_s N_s, \theta_s N_s] \). In this paper, we prove that \( \mathcal{R}(\theta, \mathbf{N}) / \sigma(\mathcal{R}, \mathbf{N}) \) has a Gaussian limiting distribution as \( N \to \infty \), where \( \theta = (\theta_1, \ldots, \theta_s) \) is a uniformly distributed random variable in \( [0,1]^s \), \( N = N_1 \cdots N_s \) and \( \sigma(\mathcal{R}, \mathbf{N}) \asymp (\log N)^{(s-1)/2} \). We obtain also a similar result for the low discrepancy sequence corresponding to \( \Gamma \). The main tool is the S-unit theorem.


Keywords

lattice points problem, low discrepancy sequences, totally real algebraic number.


Citation

Levin, M. B. (2016). On the gaussian limiting distribution of lattice points in a parallelepiped. Uniform Distribution Theory, 11(2), 45–89. https://doi.org/10.1515/udt-2016-0014

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