The joint distribution of binary and ternary digits sums
| Autor: | Drmota, Michael, Spiegelhofer, Lukas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2025 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We consider the sum-of-digits functions $s_2$ and $s_3$ in bases $2$ and $3$. These functions just return the minimal numbers of powers of two (resp. three) needed in order to represent a nonnegative integer as their sum. A result of the second author states that there are infinitely many \emph{collisions} of $s_2$ and $s_3$, that is, positive integers $n$ such that \[s_2(n)=s_3(n).\] This resolved a long-standing folklore conjecture. In the present paper, we prove a strong generalization of this statement, stating that $(s_2(n),s_3(n))$ attains almost all values in $\mathbb N^2$, in the sense of asymptotic density. In particular, this yields \emph{generalized collisions}: for any pair $(a,b)$ of positive integers, the equation \[as_2(n)=bs_3(n)\] admits infinitely many solutions in $n$. Comment: 24 pages |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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