On exceptional sets in the metric Poissonian pair correlations problem (Q2416332)

The authors say that a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers, \((a_n)_n\) has metric Poissonian pair correlations if the sequence \((\alpha a_n)_n\) has Poissonian pair correlations for almost all (with respect to Lebesgue measure) \(\alpha \in [0,1]\). For a given sequence \((a_n)_n\), \(NPPC((a_n)_n)\) is the exceptional set of all \(\alpha \in (0,1)\) such that \((\{\alpha a_n \})_n\) does not have Poissonian pair correlations. Moreover, let \(A_N= \{a_n : n \leq N \}\) and let \(E(A_N)\) be the additive energy of the set \(A_N\). Building upon earlier results [\textit{C. Aistleitner} et al., Isr. J. Math. 222, No. 1, 463--485 (2017; Zbl 1388.11043)], the authors prove in Theorem 1 that if \(E(A_N) = \Omega(N^3)\), the exceptional set \(NPPC((a_n)_n)\) has full Lebesgue measure. Furthermore, the authors construct sequences with high additive energy which do not have metric Poissonian pair correlations, in a strong sense, and provide Hausdorff dimension estimates (see Theorem 2 and Corollary 1).