Good permutations for extreme discrepancy (Q1208156)

It is known that for every infinite sequence \(X: x_ 1,x_ 2,\dots\) in \([0,1)\) for the discrepancy \(D_ N\) of the first \(N\) sequence elements we have \(s(x):= \limsup_ n(D(N)/\text{Log }N) \geq 0.12\). For the usual van der Corput-sequence to base \(b\), the value \(s(x)\) tends to infinity with growing base \(b\). In this paper it is shown that in the case of generalized van der Corput- sequences for every base \(b\) there exists a permutation \(\sigma\) such that for the generalized van der Corput-sequence \(S^ \sigma_ b\) one has \(S(S^ \sigma_ b) \leq 1/\text{Log }2\). As a special case for base \(b = 36\) a permutation \(\sigma\) is explicitly given such that \(S(S^ \sigma_{36}) = 23/(35\text{ Log }6) = 0.3667\dots\). This is the smallest value for \(s\) known till now.