Conjecture on Poissonian correlations for prime rotations

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Let α\alpha be a badly approximable number, meaning that there is a constant c>0c>0 such that

qαcq\|q\alpha\|\geq \frac{c}{q}

for every positive integer qq. Consider the prime rotation sequence (pnα)nNmod1(p_n\alpha)_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \mod 1, where pnp_n denotes the nn-th prime.

Prime-rotation conjecture. The prime rotation sequence (pnα)nNmod1(p_n\alpha)_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \mod 1 has Poissonian correlations of all orders and, consequently, has Poissonian gap distribution.

The conjecture proposes Poissonian fine-scale statistics for prime rotations at every badly approximable rotation parameter. The source presents it as an expected extension of the paper's result beyond the assumption that the auxiliary function tends to zero; no resolution is given here.

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Primary source

Manuel Hauke, “The bad and rough rotation is Poissonian”, arXiv:2506.01736 (2025).

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