Benford's law and distribution functions of sequences in (0,1)

DOI10.1134/S0001434610090178MaRDI QIDQ650304zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date 25 November 2011

Published in Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001434610090178

zbMATH Keywords

Benford's lawdensity of occurrence of digitsdistribution function of a sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of distribution modulo (1) (11K06) Normal numbers, radix expansions, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, good lattice points, etc. (11K16)

Review text

In this article the authors find a functional equation for distribution functions of a sequence \(x_n\) that satisfies the strong Benford law. Let \(G(x_n)\) be the set of all distribution functions of \(x_n\). Assume that every \(g(x)\in G(x_n)\) is continuous at \(x=0\). Then the authors prove that the sequence \(x_n\) satisfies the strong Benford law in the base \(b\) if and only if for every \(g(x)\in G(x_n)\), \(x=\sum_{i=0}^\infty (g(1/b^{i})-g(1/b^{i+x}))\) for \(x\in [0,1]\). Examples of distribution functions of sequences satisfying the functional equation are given. Furthermore, the authors transform some theorems from uniform distribution theory to the language of Benford's law.

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