Poissonian gap distribution conjecture for αnθ\alpha n^\theta

Let α0\alpha\neq 0 and let θ>0\theta>0 satisfy θ12\theta\neq\tfrac12 and θZ\theta\notin\mathbb Z. For each NN, let y1(N)<<yN(N)y_1^{(N)}<\cdots<y_N^{(N)} be an ordering of the points αnθ(mod1)\alpha n^\theta\pmod 1 with n<Nn<N. Poissonian gap distribution conjecture. The normalized consecutive gaps satisfy

limN1N#{i<N:N(yi+1(N)yi(N))(a,b)}=abetdt.\lim_{N\to\infty}\frac{1}{N}\#\left\{i<N:N\bigl(y_{i+1}^{(N)}-y_i^{(N)}\bigr)\in(a,b)\right\}=\int_a^b e^{-t}\,dt.

In other words, the gap distribution should be Poissonian. The case θ=12\theta=\tfrac12 is excluded because the gap distribution is known not to be Poissonian there; this is also the only case in which existence of the gap distribution is known.

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Maksym Radziwiłł and Andrei Shubin, “Poissonian pair correlation for αn^θ”, arXiv:2304.04621 (2023).

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