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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479922003321

Autore

Philipp Walter <1936->

Titolo

Mixing sequences of random variables and probabilistic number theory / / by Walter Philipp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1971

ISBN

0-8218-9911-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (108 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; ; number 114

Disciplina

512/.7

Soggetti

Probabilistic number theory

Sequences (Mathematics)

Random variables

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Limit theorems for mixing sequences of random variables""; ""1.1. The central problem""; ""1.2. The central limit theorem with remainder and the law of the iterated logarithm""; ""1.3. An extension of the law of the iterated logarithm""; ""1.3.1. The upper bound""; ""1.3.2. The lower bound""; ""2. Limit theorems for continued fractions and related algorithms""; ""3. Limit theorems in Diophantine approximation""; ""3.1. Introduction""; ""3.2. Preliminaries""; ""3.3. The asymptotic behavior of N*""; ""3.3.1. Preparatory remarks""

""3.3.2. The law of the iterated logarithm and the central limit theorem for the y[sub(j)]'s and the z[sub(j)]'s""""3.3.3. Proof of Theorem 3.1.2*""; ""3.3.4. Proof of Theorem 3.1.1*""; ""3.4. The asymptotic behavior of N""; ""4. The law of the iterated logarithm for discrepancies of sequences uniformly distributed mod 1""; ""4.1. The discrepancies of almost all sequences (in the sense of the infinite product measure)""; ""4.2. The discrepancies of sequences of the type ""; ""5. The distribution of additive functions""; ""5.1. Kubiliusf fundamental lemma""

""5.2. Preparatory lemmas""""5.3. Limit theorems for additive functions of class H""; ""5.4. A more direct method""; ""5.5. A result on uniform distribution""; ""References""