The notion of a normal number and the Normal Number Theorem date back over 100 years. Émile Borel first stated his Normal Number Theorem in 1909. Despite their seemingly basic nature, normal numbers are still engaging many mathematicians to this day. In this paper, we provide a reinterpretation of the...
There has been a lot of work done in recent decades in the field of symbolic dynamics.
Much attention has been paid to the so-called "complexity" function, which gives a sense
of the rate at which the number of words in the system grow. In this paper, we explore this...
A functional central limit theorem for a strictly stationary
associated random field in the general d-dimension case with an added
moment condition is proven. Functional central limit theorems for
associated random measures are also proven. More specifically,
conditions are given that imply weak convergence in the Skorohod
topology of a...
Large deviation theory has experienced much development and interest in
the last two decades. A large deviation principle is the exponential decay of the
probability of increasingly rare events and the computation of a rate or entropy
function which measures the rate of decay. Within the probability literature there
has...
Product densities have been widely used in the literature to give a
concrete description of the distribution of a point process. A rigorous
description of properties of product densities is presented with examples to
show that in some sense these results are the best possible. Product
densities are then used...
For a certain class of Z²-actions, we provide a proof of a conjecture that the ratio of the Perron eigenvalues of the transfer matrices of the free boundary restrictions converge to the entropy of that action. Also, a novel method for computing the entropy of Z²-actions is conjectured.