Higher dimensional gap theorems for the maximum metric

Abstract

Recently, the first author together with Jens Marklof studied generalizations of the classical three distance theorem to higher dimensional toral rotations, giving upper bounds in all dimensions for the corresponding numbers of distances with respect to any flat Riemannian metric. In dimension two they proved a five distance theorem, which is best possible. In this paper we establish analogous bounds, in all dimensions, for the maximum metric. We also show that in dimensions two and three our bounds are best possible.