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A bias parity question for Sturmian words

Number Theory 2018-11-16 v1

Abstract

We analyze a natural parity problem on the divisors associated to Sturmian words. We find a clear bias towards the odd divisors and obtain a sharp asymptotic estimate for the average of the difference odd-even function tamed by a mollifier, which proves various experimental results.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.06509,
  title  = {A bias parity question for Sturmian words},
  author = {Cristian Cobeli and Alexandru Zaharescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06509},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages and 10 figures

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