The dispersion of dilated lacunary sequences, with applications in multiplicative Diophantine approximation

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Main Author: Stefanescu, Eduard
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contents Let $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ be a Hadamard lacunary sequence. We give upper bounds for the maximal gap of the set of dilates $\{a_n α\}_{n \leq N}$ modulo 1, in terms of $N$. For any lacunary sequence $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ we prove the existence of a dilation factor $α$ such that the maximal gap is of order at most $(\log N)/N$, and we prove that for Lebesgue almost all $α$ the maximal gap is of order at most $(\log N)^{2+\varepsilon}/N$. The metric result is generalized to other measures satisfying a certain Fourier decay assumption. Both upper bounds are optimal up to a factor of logarithmic order, and the latter result improves a recent result of Chow and Technau. Finally, we show that our result implies an improved upper bound in the inhomogeneous version of Littlewood's problem in multiplicative Diophantine approximation.
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spellingShingle The dispersion of dilated lacunary sequences, with applications in multiplicative Diophantine approximation
Stefanescu, Eduard
Number Theory
11J83, 11J70, 42A16, 28A78
Let $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ be a Hadamard lacunary sequence. We give upper bounds for the maximal gap of the set of dilates $\{a_n α\}_{n \leq N}$ modulo 1, in terms of $N$. For any lacunary sequence $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ we prove the existence of a dilation factor $α$ such that the maximal gap is of order at most $(\log N)/N$, and we prove that for Lebesgue almost all $α$ the maximal gap is of order at most $(\log N)^{2+\varepsilon}/N$. The metric result is generalized to other measures satisfying a certain Fourier decay assumption. Both upper bounds are optimal up to a factor of logarithmic order, and the latter result improves a recent result of Chow and Technau. Finally, we show that our result implies an improved upper bound in the inhomogeneous version of Littlewood's problem in multiplicative Diophantine approximation.
title The dispersion of dilated lacunary sequences, with applications in multiplicative Diophantine approximation
topic Number Theory
11J83, 11J70, 42A16, 28A78
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19802