Leading digit laws on linear Lie groups

DOI10.1007/S40993-015-0024-4MaRDI QIDQ896501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Corey Manack, Steven J. Miller

Publication date 9 December 2015

Published in Research in Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01605

zbMATH Keywords

Haar measureBenford's lawmatrix groupsdigit laws

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99) General theory of distribution modulo (1) (11K06) Set functions and measures on topological groups or semigroups, Haar measures, invariant measures (28C10)

Abstract: We determine the leading digit laws for the matrix components of a linear Lie group $G$. These laws generalize the observations that the normalized Haar measure of the Lie group $mathbb{R}^{+}$ is $dx/x$ and that the scale invariance of $dx/x$ implies the distribution of the digits follow Benford's law, which is the probability of observing a significand base $B$ of at most $s$ is $lo{g}_B(s)$; thus the first digit is $d$ with probability $lo{g}_B(1+1/d)$). Viewing this scale invariance as left invariance of Haar measure, we determine the power laws in significands from one matrix component of various such $G$. We also determine the leading digit distribution of a fixed number of components of a unit sphere, and find periodic behavior when the dimension of the sphere tends to infinity in a certain progression.

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