On the convergence rate of pair correlations

Abstract In this note, we propose to study the rate at which the weak pair correlation statistic with parameter $$0 &lt; \alpha \le 1$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> <mml:mo>&lt;</mml:mo> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> <mml:mo>≤</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> converges to its limit in the Poissonian case. As an application we show that if $$(x_n)_{n \in \mathbb {N}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>∈</mml:mo> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:msub> </mml:math> has weak $$\alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:math> -Poissonian pair correlations and the rate of convergence is locally uniform of order $$cN^{-\kappa }$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>-</mml:mo> <mml:mi>κ</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> , then it also has weak $$\beta $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>β</mml:mi> </mml:math> -Poissonian pair correlations for some $$\beta &gt; \alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>β</mml:mi> <mml:mo>&gt;</mml:mo> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> depending on $$\kappa $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>κ</mml:mi> </mml:math> . This may be regarded as a partial converse of the well-known fact that $$\beta $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>β</mml:mi> </mml:math> -Poissonian pair correlations imply $$\alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:math> -Poissonian pair correlations if $$\beta &gt; \alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>β</mml:mi> <mml:mo>&gt;</mml:mo> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> .