An improved bound for the star discrepancy of sequences in the unit interval

Gerhard Larcher, Florian Puchhammer

Published 2015-11-12Version 1

It is known that there is a constant $c>0$ such that for every sequence $x_1, x_2,\ldots$ in $[0,1)$ we have for the star discrepancy $D^{*}_N$ of the first $N$ elements of the sequence that $N D^{*}_N\geq c\cdot \log N$ holds for infinitely many $N$. Let $c^{*}$ be the supremum of all such $c$ with this property. We show $c^{*}>0.065664679\ldots$, thereby slightly improving the estimates known until now.