Rudnick–Sarnak Poissonian local statistics conjecture for quadratic sequences

Let YY be uniformly distributed on [0,1)[0,1), and for NNN\in\mathbb{N} and 0<LN0<L\leq N define the random variable

Wα,L,N:={nN:αn2[Y,Y+L/N] mod1}.W_{\alpha,L,N}:=\left\lvert\{n\leq N:\alpha n^2\in[Y,Y+L/N]\ \operatorname{mod}1\}\right\rvert.

Here Po(L)\operatorname{Po}(L) denotes a Poisson-distributed random variable with parameter LL. Rudnick–Sarnak conjecture. For almost all α[0,1]\alpha\in[0,1], for every fixed L>0L>0,

Wα,L,NdistPo(L)W_{\alpha,L,N}\xrightarrow{\operatorname{dist}}\operatorname{Po}(L)

as NN\to\infty. This is a strong local form of pseudorandomness for the sequence (αn2 mod1)n=1(\alpha n^2\ \operatorname{mod}1)_{n=1}^{\infty} and is equivalent to Poissonian spacing statistics. The source presents it as a conjecture and gives no resolution evidence.

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Primary source

Niclas Technau and Aled Walker, “On the triple correlations of fractional parts of n^2α”, arXiv:2005.01490 (2021).

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