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A metric discrepancy result for a lacunary sequence with small gaps

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For any \({G(k) \uparrow \infty}\) , there exists a sequence {n k } of integers with 1 ≤ n k+1n k G(k) such that the discrepancies of {n k x} obey the law of the iterated logarithm in the same way as uniform distributed i.i.d.

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Correspondence to Katusi Fukuyama.

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Communicated by J. Schoißengeier.

The author was supported in part by KAKENHI 19204008.

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Fukuyama, K. A metric discrepancy result for a lacunary sequence with small gaps. Monatsh Math 162, 277–288 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-009-0185-0

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