Strengthened vanishing correlation conjecture for lattice points near circles

Let AR(λj)\mathcal{A}_R(\lambda_j) denote the normalized quantities attached to the cyclically ordered lattice points, and let A(r,θ)\mathcal{A}_\infty(r,\theta) be their limiting random model. For k1k\geq1, consider the random vectors

{(AR(λj),AR(λj+k))}1jK.\left\{\left(\mathcal{A}_R(\lambda_j),\mathcal{A}_R(\lambda_{j+k})\right)\right\}_{1\leq j\leq K}.

Strengthened vanishing correlation conjecture. These vectors converge in distribution, in the double limit RR\to\infty followed by kk\to\infty, to

(Y1,Y2):=(A(r,θ),A(r,θ)),(Y_1,Y_2):=\left(\mathcal{A}_\infty(r,\theta),\mathcal{A}_\infty(r',\theta)\right),

where (r,θ,r)(r,\theta,r') is uniformly distributed on

G×[12,12]=[12,12]×[0,2π)×[12,12].G\times\left[-\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}},\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right] =\left[-\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}},\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right]\times[0,2\pi)\times\left[-\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}},\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right].

This is a strengthened form of the vanishing correlation conjecture: the preceding theorem identifies the limiting marginal distribution, while the conjecture asserts the stated joint limiting behavior as the separation kk tends to infinity. Its status is open in the supplied source.

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Primary source

Stephen Lester and Igor Wigman, “Around the Gauss circle problem: Hardy's conjecture and the distribution of lattice points near circles”, arXiv:2305.03549 (2023).

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