An application of Shoenfield's absoluteness theorem to the theory of uniform distribution (Q1314862)

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An application of Shoenfield's absoluteness theorem to the theory of uniform distribution
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    An application of Shoenfield's absoluteness theorem to the theory of uniform distribution (English)
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    14 March 1994
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    The author gives two different proofs, one in the language of set theory, the other in the language of probability theory for the following result: If \({\mathcal C}\) is a Polish probability measure space, \(W\subseteq \mathbb{N}^ \mathbb{N} \times{\mathcal C}\) a Borel set whose sections \(W_ x\), \(x\in \mathbb{N}^ \mathbb{N}\) have measure one and are decreasing \((x\leq x'\to w_ x\geq x_{x'})\) then \(\bigcap_ x W_ x\) has measure one. As a consequence one obtains an interesting result on uniform distribution: Let \(s\in \mathbb{N}^ \mathbb{N}\) be a sequence of positive integers, \(t\in \{0,1\}^ \mathbb{N}\) a sequence in \(\{0,1\}\) then \(t\) is called \(s\)-uniformly distributed if \(\lim_{n\to\infty} D_{s(n)} (t,n)=0\), where \[ D_ k(t,n):= 2^ k \max_{w\in \{0,1\}^ k} \Biggl| {{|\{i<n: (t(i),\dots, t(i+k-1))= w\}|} \over n} - {1\over {2^ k}} \Biggr|. \] It is shown that almost all sequences are \(s\)-uniformly distributed iff \(\log n- \log\log n- s(n)\) tends to infinity.
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    measure one sections
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    \(s\)-uniformly distributed sequence
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    Polish probability measure space
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    Borel set
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    uniform distribution
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