Weyl’s criterion
Let be a sequence of real numbers. Then isuniformly distributed modulo if and only if
for every nonzero integer , where .
Weyl’s criterion reduces the problem of uniform distribution ofsequences to the problem of estimating certain exponential sums.Whereas the problem of estimating a family of exponential sumsmight seem harder at first, the exponential map has themultiplicative property which often makes the problem easier.
Example: If is irrational, then the sequence is uniformly distributed modulo . Proof:
because the irrationality of implies .
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