Significant Digits of Primes in Subsets

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Authors Henry Glunz

Publication date 14 July 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Normal numbers, radix expansions, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, good lattice points, etc. (11K16) Zeta functions and (L)-functions of number fields (11R42)

Abstract: Benford's Law describes the prevalence of small numbers as the leading digits of numbers in many sets of integers. We prove a variant of Benford's law for many positive-density subsets of the primes. This follows from a more general result over number fields.

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