Effective Erd\H{o}s--Wintner for Cantor numeration systems via a trailing-window method
Abstract
We prove explicit Erd\H{o}s--Wintner bounds for Cantor numeration systems via a simple trailing-window decomposition. We temporarily discard the last block of digits (the ``window'') and analyze the remaining prefix. The resulting bound has three contributions: (i) a bridge loss from discarding the window; (ii) a variance-type tail for the prefix; and (iii) a regime-dependent smoothing term (Esseen, bounded density, or cancellation of the third cumulant). Optimizing the window length yields rates that are explicit in the sample size. In the fixed-base (q-adic) case we recover Delange's product and obtain effective convergence bounds; the same scheme applies unchanged to Cantor numeration systems. We also include a brief guide indicating when each regime is preferable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.22858,
title = {Effective Erd\H{o}s--Wintner for Cantor numeration systems via a trailing-window method},
author = {Johann Verwee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22858},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Submitted to the International Journal of Number Theory. 14 pages. Minor clarifications; no change to results