Randomized trial demonstrates Poisson distribution characteristics in dyadic blocks, suggesting probabilistic insights into multiplicative functions.
English edition (reference version) and original French edition ("Loi de Poisson critique dans un bloc dyadique") of the paper. Abstract. Let f be an extended Rademacher random multiplicative function, i.e. a completely multiplicative function whose values at the primes are independent Rademacher variables. We count, in the dyadic block [N,2N), the starting points of maximal constant stretches of length at least L. Uniformly for |L−log₂N| ≤ C, we prove that this count is Poisson in total variation with parameter N·2^(−L), at rate O_C((log log N)^(−2)); the dominant term comes from the probabilistic conditioning, while the arithmetic core leaves an exp(−c·√(log N)/log log N) margin. The proof combines an exact affine formulation, an absolute homogeneous two-block estimate, conditioning on the small primes, and the Chen–Stein method. We also prove a uniform deterministic-mask version, vague convergence of the spatial start process to a Poisson point process, and convergence of the excess-length marked process to a Poisson point process with geometric marks. The gluing of [1,M] is proved for interior starts, and the longest-run law in the finite prefix (f(1),…,f(M)) follows by coupling. Files: - paper_C_complete_v08_en.pdf — English edition (reference), 71 pages, SHA-256 2f7c7b9fe3522059f0eb5fb7bf7871f0c3247e30aec534b1caa63abff5c8c927 - paper_C_complete_v08.pdf — French original, 72 pages, SHA-256 c53b66ad467b2637d764124c20b9d788f1489b91cd90f3d907bf1eb814a17bc5 The deductions of the main results are verified with the Lean 4 proof assistant, conditionally on seven explicitly registered published results; the formalization (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21735482, GitHub Vulkin-prog/paper-c-lean, tag v0.47.0) identifies these exact PDFs by their SHA-256 fingerprints.
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