Weak Poissonian box correlations of higher order

Abstract

Poissonian pair correlations have sparked interest within the mathematical community, because of their number theoretic properties, and their connections to quantum physics and probability theory, particularly uniformly distributed random numbers. Rather recently, several generalizations of the concept have been introduced, including weak Poissonian pair correlations and $k$-th order Poissonian correlations. In this paper, we propose a new generalized concept called $(k,m,\beta)$-Poissonian box correlations. We study their properties and more specifically their relation to uniform distribution theory, discrepancy theory, random numbers and gap distributions.