An Explicit non-Poissonian Pair Correlation Function

Abstract: A generic uniformly distributed random sequence on the unit interval has Poissonian pair correlations. At the same time, there are only very few explicitly known examples of sequences with this property. Moreover, many types of deterministic sequences, which are important in other contexts of equidistribution theory, have been proven to fail having the Poissonian pair correlation property. In all known examples for the non-Poissonian case, rather sophisticated arguments were used to derive information on the limiting pair correlation function. In this paper, we derive therefore the first elementary such example, namely for the sequence $x_n := \left{ \frac{\log(2n-1)}{\log(2)} \right}$, which is also a low-dispersion sequence. The proof only heavily relies on a full understanding of the gap structure of $(x_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$. Furthermore, we discuss differences to the weak pair correlation function.