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The asymptotic rate vs. distance problem is a long-standing fundamental problem in coding theory. The best upper bound to date was given in 1977 and has received since then numerous proofs and interpretations. Here we provide a new,…

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We study the $L_p$ discrepancy of digital NUT sequences which are an important sub-class of digital $(0,1)$-sequences in the sense of Niederreiter. The main result is a lower bound for certain sub-classes of digital NUT sequences.

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Let $(u_n)_{n \geq 0}$ be a non-degenerate Lucas sequence, given by the relation $u_n=a_1 u_{n-1}+a_2 u_{n-2}$. Let $\ell_u(m)=lcm(m, z_u(m))$, for $(m,a_2)=1$, where $z_u(m)$ is the rank of appearance of $m$ in $u_n$. We prove that…

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Our objective is to provide an upper bound for the length $\ell_N$ of the longest run of consecutive integers smaller than $N$ which have the same number of divisors. We prove in an elementary way that $\log\ell_N\ll(\log N\log\log…

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We study the extreme and the periodic $L_p$ discrepancy of point sets in the $d$-dimensional unit cube. The extreme discrepancy uses arbitrary sub-intervals of the unit cube as test sets, whereas the periodic discrepancy is based on…