Factorials $\pmod p$ and the average of modular mappings
Number Theory
2020-11-17 v1 Probability
Abstract
We have known that most sequences in with length will miss of the total numbers of as the ratio tends to . Now we consider a more general case where the numbers in are achieved exactly k times by a 'random' sequence . We show that if , then the limit has a Poisson distribution, that is, the proportion of sequences for which some number in is achieved exactly times has the limit . We conjecture that this is the behavior of the factorial mapping modulo a prime and present a few supporting arguments.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.07582,
title = {Factorials $\pmod p$ and the average of modular mappings},
author = {Cristian Cobeli and Alexandru Zaharescu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.07582},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
8 pages, 6 figures