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We consider the continued fraction digits as random variables measured with respect to Lebesgue measure. The logarithmically scaled and normalized fluctuation process of the digit sums converges strongly distributional to a random variable…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Marc Kesseböhmer , Mehdi Slassi

In this paper we show that certain sets are dense in $\mathbb{R}$. We give some applications. For example, we show an analytical proof that $q^{\frac{1}{n}}$, $q$ is a prime number and $e$; are irrational numbers. As another application we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Manas R. Sahoo

We prove that many sequences of positive numbers $(a_n)$ defined by finite linear difference equations $a_{n+k}=c_{k-1}a_{n+k-1}+...+c_0a_n$ with suitable non negative reals coefficients $c_i$ satisfy Bendford's Law on the first digit in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-08-18 Hugues Deligny , Paul Jolissaint

For every integer $n\ge 1$ let $a_n$ be the smallest positive integer such that $n+a_n$ is prime. We investigate the behavior of the sequence $(a_n)_{n\ge 1}$, and prove asymptotic results for the sums $\sum_{n\le x} a_n$, $\sum_{n\le x}…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Brăduţ Apostol , Laurenţiu Panaitopol , Lucian Petrescu , László Tóth

The law of large numbers for the empirical density for the pairs of uniformly distributed integers with a given greatest common divisor is a classic result in number theory. In this paper, we study the large deviations of the empirical…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Behzad Mehrdad , Lingjiong Zhu

Let $k$ be an integer which is the difference between prime numbers infinitely often. It is known that there are infinitely many such $k$ and, in this paper, we give a new unconditional proof that these $k$ have positive density and improve…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Stijn S. C. Hanson

While the prime numbers have been subject to mathematical inquiry since the ancient Greeks, the accumulated effort of understanding these numbers has - as Marcus du Sautoy recently phrased it - 'not revealed the origins of what makes the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Kolbjørn Tunstrøm

In 1997 H.G.Diamond gave a condition on Beurling's generalized prime numbers in order that the corresponding generalized integers have a density. We give a new proof of this condition (Theorem 1) and a proof that it is not necessary…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Jean-Pierre Kahane

Let $\sigma(n)$ to be the sum of the positive divisors of $n$. A number is non-deficient if $\sigma(n) \geq 2n$. We establish new lower bounds for the number of distinct prime factors of an odd non-deficient number in terms of its second…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Joshua Zelinsky

A recent article by Alexopoulos and Leontsinis presented empirical evidence that the first digits of the distances to galaxies are a reasonably good fit to the probabilities predicted by Benford's law, the well known logarithmic statistical…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-30 Ronald F. Fox , Theodore P. Hill

We prove Bombieri-Vinogradov type theorems for primes with a missing digit in their $b$-adic expansion for some large positive integer $b$. The proof is based on the circle method, which relies on the Fourier structure of the integers with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Kunjakanan Nath

We present the pattern underlying some of the properties of natural numbers, using the framework of complex networks. The network used is a divisibility network in which each node has a fixed identity as one of the natural numbers and the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Abiya Rajans , G. Ambika

All the known approximations of the number of primes pi(n) not exceeding any given integer n are derived from real-valued functions that are asymptotic to pi(x), such as x/log x, Li(x) and Riemann's function R(x). The degree of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Bhupinder Singh Anand

We provide general expressions for the joint distributions of the $k$ most significant $b$-ary digits and of the $k$ leading continued fraction coefficients of outcomes of an arbitrary continuous random variable. Our analysis highlights the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Félix Balado , Guénolé C. M. Silvestre

In this paper, we study the distribution of the digital reverses of prime numbers, which we call the "reversed primes". We prove the infinitude of reversed primes in any arithmetic progression satisfying straightforward necessary conditions…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Gautami Bhowmik , Yuta Suzuki

According to a popular belief, the decimal digits of mathematical constants such as {\pi} behave like statistically independent random variables, each taking the values 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 with equal probability of 1/10. If…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Paula Nataniela Roba , Karlis Podnieks

This article is meant to provide an additional point of view, applying known knowledge, to supply keys that have a series of non-repeating digits, in a manner that is not usually thought of. Traditionally, prime numbers are used in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-02 Givon Zirkind

In this work we show that the prime distribution is deterministic. Indeed the set of prime numbers P can be expressed in terms of two subsets of N using three specific selection rules, acting on two sets of prime candidates. The prime…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-09-12 Gerardo Iovane

The ratio set of a set of positive integers $A$ is defined as $R(A) := \{a / b : a, b \in A\}$. The study of the denseness of $R(A)$ in the set of positive real numbers is a classical topic and, more recently, the denseness in the set of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Piotr Miska , Carlo Sanna

This note investigates the average density of prime numbers $p\in[x,2x]$ with respect to a random simultaneous primitive root $g\leq p^{1/2+\varepsilon}$ over the finite rings $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{Z}/p^2\mathbb{Z}$ as $x…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 N. A. Carella