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Simple fractions and linear decomposition of some convolutions of measures

Jolanta K. Misiewicz, Roger Cooke (2001)

Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics

Every characteristic function φ can be written in the following way: φ(ξ) = 1/(h(ξ) + 1), where h(ξ) = ⎧ 1/φ(ξ) - 1 if φ(ξ) ≠ 0 ⎨ ⎩ ∞ if φ(ξ) = 0 This simple remark implies that every characteristic function can be treated as a simple fraction of the function h(ξ). In the paper, we consider a class C(φ) of all characteristic functions of the form φ a ( ξ ) = [ a / ( h ( ξ ) + a ) ] , where φ(ξ) is a fixed characteristic function. Using the well known theorem on simple fraction decomposition of rational functions we obtain that convolutions...

Some Borel measures associated with the generalized Collatz mapping

K. Matthews (1992)

Colloquium Mathematicae

This paper is a continuation of a recent paper [2], in which the authors studied some Markov matrices arising from a mapping T:ℤ → ℤ, which generalizes the famous 3x+1 mapping of Collatz. We extended T to a mapping of the polyadic numbers ^ and construct finitely many ergodic Borel measures on ^ which heuristically explain the limiting frequencies in congruence classes, observed for integer trajectories.

Sums of powers: an arithmetic refinement to the probabilistic model of Erdős and Rényi

Jean-Marc Deshouillers, François Hennecart, Bernard Landreau (1998)

Acta Arithmetica

Erdős and Rényi proposed in 1960 a probabilistic model for sums of s integral sth powers. Their model leads almost surely to a positive density for sums of s pseudo sth powers, which does not reflect the case of sums of two squares. We refine their model by adding arithmetical considerations and show that our model is in accordance with a zero density for sums of two pseudo-squares and a positive density for sums of s pseudo sth powers when s ≥ 3. Moreover, our approach supports a conjecture of...

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