Other-bases conjecture for non-half residue stopping sets
Other-bases conjecture for non-half residue stopping sets
Fix an even modulus , a subset of residue classes, and the associated discrete stick-fragmentation process with stopping set determined by . Let denote a final stick length and let be a base. Other Bases conjecture. The final collection of stick lengths does not converge to strong Benford behavior for any base if . Specifically, if , the limiting distribution depends on the mantissa of in base , and the density of
is skewed towards . The conjecture is supported by the theorem establishing non-uniformity for sufficiently large bases, while the all-bases assertion and a precise description of the limiting distribution remain open.
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Xinyu Fang, Steven J. Miller, Maxwell Sun and Amanda Verga, “Generalized Continuous and Discrete Stick Fragmentation and Benford's Law”, arXiv:2309.00766 (2023).
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