Irregularities of continuous distributions

DOI10.5802/AIF.1175MaRDI QIDQ1115909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 1989

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIF_1989__39_3_501_0, https://eudml.org/doc/74839

Beck's Fourier transform method discrepancy irregularities of point distributions uniform distribution uniformly distributed functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of distribution modulo (1) (11K06) Irregularities of distribution, discrepancy (11K38)

Review text

This paper deals with a continuous analogon to irregularities of point distributions. A typical result of this paper runs as follows: Let x: [0,1]\(\to X\) be a continuous function with arclength s, where X is a compact, convex body \(\subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^ k\) with Lebesgue measure \(\lambda_ K(X)=1\). Then the discrepancy of x with respect to balls \(B\subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^ k\) is bounded by \[ D^{(B)}(x)=\sup_{B}| \int^{1}_{0}1_ B(x(t))dt-\lambda_ K(B\cap X)| \quad \gg \quad s^{-(1/2+1/(K-1))} \] and this estimate is optimal despite of a possible logarithmic factor in s. This and similar results are proved by using J. Beck's Fourier transform method and some technical lemmata. For example the torus \({\mathbb{R}}^ K/{\mathbb{Z}}^ K\), the sphere \(S^ K\), and the unit disc are discussed in detail.

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