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Let s be an integer greater than or equal to 2. A real number is simply normal to base s if in its base-s expansion every digit 0, 1, ..., s-1 occurs with the same frequency 1/s. Let X be the set of positive integers that are not perfect powers, hence X is the set {2,3, 5,6,7,10,11,...} . Let M be a function from X to sets of positive integers such that, for each s in X, if m is in M(s) then each divisor of m is in M(s) and if M(s) is infinite then it is equal to the set of all positive integers. These conditions on M are necessary for there to be a real number which is simply normal to exactly the bases s^m such that s is in X and m is in M(s). We show these conditions are also sufficient and further establish that the set of real numbers that satisfy them has full Hausdorff dimension. This extends a result of W. M. Schmidt (1961/1962) on normal numbers to different bases.
We prove independence of normality to different bases We show that the set of real numbers that are normal to some base is Sigma^0_4 complete in the Borel hierarchy of subsets of real numbers. This was an open problem, initiated by Alexander Kechris, and conjectured by Ditzen 20 years ago.
A folklore conjecture in number theory states that the only integers whose expansions in base $3,4$ and $5$ contain solely binary digits are $0, 1$ and $82000$. In this paper, we present the first progress on this conjecture. Furthermore, we investigate the density of the integers containing only binary digits in their base $3$ or $4$ expansion, whereon an exciting transition in behaviour is observed. Our methods shed light on the reasons for this, and relate to several well-known questions, such as Grahams problem and a related conjecture of Pomerance. Finally, we generalise this setting and prove that the set of numbers in $[0, 1]$ who do not contain some digit in their $b$-expansion for all $b geq 3$ has zero Hausdorff dimension.
M. B. Levin used Sobol-Faure low discrepancy sequences with Pascal matrices modulo $2$ to construct, for each integer $b$, a real number $x$ such that the first $N$ terms of the sequence $(b^n x mod 1)_{ngeq 1}$ have discrepancy $O((log N)^2/N)$. This is the lowest discrepancy known for this kind of sequences. In this note we characterize Levins construction in terms of nested perfect necklaces, which are a variant of the classical de Bruijn necklaces. Moreover, we show that every real number $x$ whose base $b$ expansion is the concatenation of nested perfect necklaces of exponentially increasing order satisfies that the first $N$ terms of $(b^n x mod 1)_{ngeq 1}$ have discrepancy $O((log N)^2/N)$. For base $2$ and the order being a power of $2$, we give the exact number of nested perfect necklaces and an explicit method based on matrices to construct each of them.
Let $b ge 2$ and $ell ge 1$ be integers. We establish that there is an absolute real number $K$ such that all the partial quotients of the rational number $$ prod_{h = 0}^ell , (1 - b^{-2^h}), $$ of denominator $b^{2^{ell+1} - 1}$, do not exceed $exp(K (log b)^2 sqrt{ell} 2^{ell/2})$.
Given an integer $k$, define $C_k$ as the set of integers $n > max(k,0)$ such that $a^{n-k+1} equiv a pmod{n}$ holds for all integers $a$. We establish various multiplicative properties of the elements in $C_k$ and give a sufficient condition for the infinitude of $C_k$. Moreover, we prove that there are finitely many elements in $C_k$ with one and two prime factors if and only if $k>0$ and $k$ is prime. In addition, if all but two prime factors of $n in C_k$ are fixed, then there are finitely many elements in $C_k$, excluding certain infinite families of $n$. We also give conjectures about the growth rate of $C_k$ with numerical evidence. We explore a similar question when both $a$ and $k$ are fixed and prove that for fixed integers $a geq 2$ and $k$, there are infinitely many integers $n$ such that $a^{n-k} equiv 1 pmod{n}$ if and only if $(k,a) eq (0,2)$ by building off the work of Kiss and Phong. Finally, we discuss the multiplicative properties of positive integers $n$ such that Carmichael function $lambda(n)$ divides $n-k$.