The champernowne constant is not Poissonian

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Abstract: We say that a sequence (xn)ninmathbbN in [0,1) has Poissonian pair correlations if �egin{equation*} lim_{N o infty} frac{1}{N} # lbrace 1 leq l eq m leq N: | x_l - x_m | leq frac{s}{N} brace = 2s end{equation*} for every sgeq0. In this note we study the pair correlation statistics for the sequence of shifts of alpha, xn=lbrace2nalphabrace,n=1,2,3,ldots, where we choose alpha as the Champernowne constant in base 2. Throughout this article lbracecdotbrace denotes the fractional part of a real number. It is well known that (xn)ninmathbbN has Poissonian pair correlations for almost all normal numbers alpha (in the sense of Lebesgue), but we will show that it does not have this property for all normal numbers alpha, as it fails to be Poissonian for the Champernowne constant.









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