A note on isotropic discrepancy and spectral test of lattice point sets (Q2307483)

The authors show in Theorem 2 that the isotropic discrepancy of a lattice point set can be bounded from below and from above in terms of the spectral test of the corresponding integration lattice. Proposition 3 states a lower bound for the spectral test of such point sets and shows that the linear structure of lattice point sets forces a large isotropic discrepancy. Based on these two ingredients, the authors deduce in Theorem 1 that the isotropic discrepancy of any \(N\)-element lattice point set in \([0,1)^d\) is at least of order \(N^{-1/d}\). This is best possible for lattice point sets in dimension \(d\); see Proposition 4.