Benfordness of Measurements Resulting from Box Fragmentation

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

Publication date: 17 April 2023

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 $d=1$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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