The rational-base equidistribution conjecture for iterated ceiling maps

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Let p>q≥1p>q\geq 1 be coprime integers and define Tp/q(x)=⌈pqx⌉T_{p/q}(x)=\left\lceil\frac{p}{q}x\right\rceil. The rational-base equidistribution conjecture. For every n∈N>0n\in\mathbb N_{>0} and every nonnegative integer kk, the sequence

(Tp/ql(n))l∈N(T_{p/q}^l(n))_{l\in\mathbb N}

is equidistributed in the residue classes modulo qkq^k. The paper states that this conjecture is equivalent to the normality conjecture for minimal words and hence is likewise open in general.

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Mélodie Andrieu, Shalom Eliahou and Léo Vivion, “A Normality Conjecture on Rational Base Number Systems”, arXiv:2510.11723 (2026).

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