Benfordness of Measurements Resulting from Box Fragmentation

MaRDI QIDQ6433368zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Livia Betti, Irfan Durmić, Zoe McDonald, J. Miller, Steven J. Miller

Publication date 17 April 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) General theory of distribution modulo (1) (11K06) Probabilistic measure theory (60A10)

Abstract: We make progress on a conjecture made by [DM], which states that the $d$-dimensional frames of $m$-dimensional boxes resulting from a fragmentation process satisfy Benford's law for all $1leqdleqm$. We provide a sufficient condition for Benford's law to be satisfied, namely that the maximum product of $d$ sides is itself a Benford random variable. Motivated to produce an example of such a fragmentation process, we show that processes constructed from log-uniform proportion cuts satisfy the maximum criterion for $d=1$.

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