Asymptotic estimate on the distance energy of lattices

Abstract

Since the well-known breakthrough of L. Guth and N. Katz on the Erdos distinct distances problem in the plane, mainstream of interest is aroused by their method and the Elekes-Sharir framework. In short words, they study the second moment in the framework. One may wonder if higher moments would be more efficient. In this paper, we show that any higher moment fails the expectation. In addition, we show that the second moment gives optimal estimate in higher dimensions.