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Quasirandom Arithmetic Permutations

Number Theory 2007-05-23 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Previously, the author introduced quasirandom permutations, permutations of Zn\mathbb{Z}_n which map intervals to sets with low discrepancy. Here we show that several natural number-theoretic permutations are quasirandom, some very strongly so. Quasirandomness is established via discrete Fourier analysis and the Erdos-Turan inequality, as well as by other means. We apply our results on Sos permutations to make progress on a number of questions relating to the sequence of fractional parts of multiples of an irrational. Several intriguing new open problems are presented throughout the discussion.

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@article{arxiv.math/0310384,
  title  = {Quasirandom Arithmetic Permutations},
  author = {Joshua N. Cooper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0310384},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages, 0 figures; title change and minor modifications; final version appeared in JNT