Benford's law, values of L-functions and the 3x+1 problem

DOI10.4064/AA120-3-4zbMATH Open1139.11033arXivmath/0412003OpenAlexW1987331682MaRDI QIDQ3369474FDOQ3369474

Authors: Steven J. Miller, Alex Kontorovich 

Publication date: 1 February 2006

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show the leading digits of a variety of systems satisfying certain conditions follow Benford's Law. For each system proving this involves two main ingredients. One is a structure theorem of the limiting distribution, specific to the system. The other is a general technique of applying Poisson Summation to the limiting distribution. We show the distribution of values of L-functions near the central line and (in some sense) the iterates of the 3x+1 Problem are Benford.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412003

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zbMATH Keywords

equidistribution\(L\)-functionBenford's Law\(3x+1\)irrationality typePoisson Summation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Recurrences (11B37) General theory of distribution modulo (1) (11K06)

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