The b-adic diaphony as a tool to study pseudo-randomness of nets

  • Authors:
  • Ivan Lirkov;Stanislava Stoilova

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria;Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

  • Venue:
  • NMA'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Numerical methods and applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We consider the b-adic diaphony as a tool to measure the uniform distribution of sequences, as well as to investigate pseudo-random properties of sequences. The study of pseudo-random properties of uniformly distributed nets is extremely important for quasi-Monte Carlo integration. It is known that the error of the quasi-Monte Carlo integration depends on the distribution of the points of the net. On the other hand, the b-adic diaphony gives information about the points distribution of the net. Several particular constructions of sequences (xi) are considered. The b-adic diaphony of the two dimensional nets {yi = (xi, xi+1)} is calculated numerically. The numerical results show that if the two dimensional net {yi} is uniformly distributed and the sequence (xi) has good pseudorandom properties, then the value of the b-adic diaphony decreases with the increase of the number of the points. The analysis of the results shows a direct relation between pseudo-randomness of the points of the constructed sequences and nets and the b-adic diaphony as well as the discrepancy.