Metric discrepancy results for geometric progressions with large ratios (Q303847)

In this paper, a law of the iterated logarithm for discrepancies of lacunary sequences \(\{\theta^{k}{x}\}_{k\in\mathbb{N}}\) is established, where \(\theta\) is an arbitrary real number of modulus \(>1\). The author determines the exact value of the constant \(\sum_{\theta}\) in \[ \limsup_{N\rightarrow\infty}\frac{ND_{N}\{\theta^{k}{x}\}}{\sqrt{2N\log\log N}}=\Sigma_{\theta} \] for almost all \(x\). This extends an earlier result where \(\theta\) was assumed to be an integer.