Poissonian pair correlations for the three-particle Sutherland model

Abstract: We prove a Berry-Tabor theorem for the repulsive three-particle trigonometric Sutherland Hamiltonian. For fixed total momentum, its relative spectrum is an affine translate of the positive-definite $A_2$-form. For a Diophantine coupling, the desymmetrized spectrum has Poissonian pair correlation. The proof reduces the problem to a finite-congruence and Weyl-sector version of Marklof's theorem on inhomogeneous quadratic forms.