On higher dimensional Poissonian pair correlation

Abstract

In this article we study the pair correlation statistic for higher dimensional sequences. We show that for any $d\geq 2$, strictly increasing sequences $(a_n^{(1)}),\ldots, (a_n^{(d)})$ of natural numbers have metric Poissonian pair correlation with respect to sup-norm if their joint additive energy is $O(N^{3-\delta})$ for any $\delta>0$. Further, in two dimension, we establish an analogous result with respect to $2$-norm. As a consequence, it follows that $(\{n\alpha\}, \{n^2\beta\})$ and $(\{n\alpha\}, \{[n\log^An]\beta\})$ ($A \in [1,2]$) have Poissonian pair correlation for almost all $(\alpha,\beta)\in \mathbb{R}^2$ with respect to sup-norm and $2$-norm. This gives a negative answer to the question raised by Hofer and Kaltenb\"ock [15]. The proof uses estimates for 'Generalized' GCD-sums.