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The $\bm{n}$-point correlations between values of a linear form

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2000

JENS MARKLOF
Affiliation:
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifique, 35, route de Chartres, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques
UMR 8626, Université Paris XI-CNRS.
Bat. 100, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France

Abstract

We show that the $n$-point correlation function for the fractional parts of a random linear form in $m$ variables has a limit distribution with power-like tail. The existence of the limit distribution follows from the mixing property of flows on ${\rm SL}(m+1,{\Bbb R})/{\rm SL}(m+1,{\Bbb Z})$. Moreover, we prove similar limit theorems (i) for the probability to find the fractional part of a random linear form close to zero and (ii) also for related trigonometric sums. For large $m$, all of the above limit distributions approach the classical distributions for independent uniformly distributed random variables.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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