Deviations of ergodic sums for toral translations II. Boxes

Abstract

We study the Kronecker sequence $\{n\alpha\}_{n\leq N}$ on the torus ${\mathbb T}^d$ when $\alpha$ is uniformly distributed on ${\mathbb T}^d.$ We show that the discrepancy of the number of visits of this sequence to a random box, normalized by $\ln^d N$, converges as $N\to\infty$ to a Cauchy distribution. The key ingredient of the proof is a Poisson limit theorem for the Cartan action on the space of $d+1$ dimensional lattices.