Benford's law for linear recurrence sequences (Q1097907)
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Benford's law for linear recurrence sequences (English)
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1987
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In section 2 the authors prove: Theorem 2.1. Let \(\{y_ n\}_{n=1,2,...}\) be an integer sequence generated by the recursion formula \(y_{n+1}=ry_ n+f(n)\), \(n=1,2,..\). If the series \(\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}f(n)/r^{n-1}\) is convergent, then the sequence \(\{y_ n\}_{n=1,2,...}\) obeys Benford's law except for the case \(r=10^ m\) with m being some nonnegativenumber of primitive representations of a positive definite quadratic form by a given even unimodular positive definite quadratic form. Finally the well-known estimate \(a_ f(T)=O((\det T)^{k/2})\) for a cusp form f is improved.
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Benford's law
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number of primitive representations
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quadratic form
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cusp form
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