On the Small Ball Inequality in Three Dimensions

Details On the Small Ball Inequality in Three Dimensions On the Small Ball Inequality in Three Dimensions

2006-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/math/0609815v2

Mathematics

Classical Analysis and ODEs

30 pages. Final version of the paper. To appear in Duke Math J

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We prove an inequality related to questions in Approximation Theory, Probability Theory, and to Irregularities of Distribution. Let $h_R$ denote an $L ^{\infty}$ normalized Haar function adapted to a dyadic rectangle $R\subset [0,1] ^{3}$. We show that there is a postive $\eta$ so that for all integers $n$, and coefficients $ \alpha (R)$ we have 2 ^{-n} \sum_{\abs{R}=2 ^{-n}} \abs{\alpha(R)} {}\lesssim{} n ^{1 - \eta} \NOrm \sum_{\abs{R}=2 ^{-n}} \alpha(R) h_R >.\infty . This is an improvement over the `trivial' estimate by an amount of $n ^{- \eta}$, and the optimal value of $\eta$ (which we do not prove) would be $ \eta =\frac12$. There is a corresponding lower bound on the $L ^{\infty}$ norm of the Discrepancy function of an arbitary distribution of a finite number of points in the unit cube in three dimensions. The prior result, in dimension 3, is that of J{\'o}zsef Beck \cite{MR1032337}, in which the improvement over the trivial estimate was logarithmic in $n$. We find several simplifications and extensions of Beck's argument to prove the result above.

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