On the pair correlations of powers of real numbers (Q2040190)

It is proved that for almost all \(x>1\) the pair correlations of the fractional parts of \((x^n)_{n=1}^{\infty}\) are asymptotically Poissonian, i.e., for any real \(s>0\) we have \[\lim_{N\to\infty} \frac{\sum\limits_{1\leq m\neq n\leq N}\chi_{[0,\frac{s}{N})}||x^n-x^m||}{N}=2s,\] where \(||\cdot||\) denotes the distance to the nearest integer and \(\chi_{[0,\frac{s}{N})}\) denotes the characteristic function of \([0,\frac{s}{N})\).