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Recent progress on pointwise normality of self-similar measures

Dynamical Systems 2025-04-28 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs Number Theory

Abstract

This article is an exposition of recent results and methods on the prevalence of normal numbers in the support of self-similar measures on the line. We also provide an essentially self-contained proof of a recent Theorem that the Rajchman property (decay of the Fourier transform) implies that typical elements in the support of the measure are normal to all bases; as no decay rate is required, this improves the classical criterion of Davenport, Erdos, and LeVeque (1964). Open problems regarding effective equidistribution, non-integer bases, and higher order correlations, are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2504.18192,
  title  = {Recent progress on pointwise normality of self-similar measures},
  author = {Amir Algom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18192},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

19 pages. Submitted to the proceedings of Fractal Geometry and Stochastics VII