On Sloane's persistence problem

DOI10.1080/10586458.2014.910849MaRDI QIDQ5498922zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Edson de Faria, Charles Tresser

Publication date 11 February 2015

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1188

zbMATH Keywords

persistencecircle mapsergodic \(\mathbb Z\)-actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Normal numbers, radix expansions, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, good lattice points, etc. (11K16) General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10)

Abstract: We investigate the so-called persistence problem of Sloane, exploiting connections with the dynamics of circle maps and the ergodic theory of $mathbb{Z}^d$ actions. We also formulate a conjecture concerning the asymptotic distribution of digits in long products of finitely many primes whose truth would, in particular, solve the persistence problem. The heuristics that we propose to complement our numerical studies can be thought in terms of a simple model in statistical mechanics.

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