<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The balancing numbers and the balancers were introduced by Behera et al. in the year 1999, which were obtained from a simple diophantine equation. The goal of this paper is to investigate the moduli for which all the residues appear with equal frequency with a single period in the sequence of balancing numbers. Also, it is claimed that, the balancing numbers are uniformly distributed modulo 2, and this holds for all other powers of 2 as well. Further, it is shown that the balancing numbers are not uniformly distributed over odd primes.</p></abstract>

The balancing numbers and the balancers were introduced by Behera et al. in the year 1999, which were obtained from a simple diophantine equation. The goal of this paper is to investigate the moduli for which all the residues appear with equal frequency with a single period in the sequence of balancing numbers. Also, it is claimed that, the balancing numbers are uniformly distributed modulo 2, and this holds for all other powers of 2 as well. Further, it is shown that the balancing numbers are not uniformly distributed over odd primes.

Uniform Distribution of the Sequence of Balancing Numbers Modulo <italic>m</italic>

Department of Mathematics, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Sambalpur-768018,

Department of Mathematics, International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar-751003,

Uniform distribution theory

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Uniform Distribution of the Sequence of Balancing Numbers Modulo 

The balancing numbers and the balancers were introduced by Behera et al. in the year 1999, which were obtained from a simple diophantine equation. The goal of...

Uniform Distribution of the Sequence of Balancing Numbers Modulo m

Publicado en línea: 13 ene 2017

Páginas: 15 - 21

Recibido: 24 dic 2014

Aceptado: 26 jun 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/udt-2016-0002

Palabras clave
Balancing numbers, Balancers, Uniform distribution, Periodicity of balancing numbers

© 2016 Prasanta Kumar Ray et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Uniform Distribution of the Sequence of Balancing Numbers Modulo m

Publicado en línea: 13 ene 2017

Páginas: 15 - 21

Recibido: 24 dic 2014

Aceptado: 26 jun 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/udt-2016-0002

Palabras claveBalancing numbers, Balancers, Uniform distribution, Periodicity of balancing numbers

© 2016 Prasanta Kumar Ray et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Balancing numbers, Balancers, Uniform distribution, Periodicity of balancing numbers