The Residues modulo m of Products of Random Integers

  • Authors:
  • Wolfgang Stadje

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Osnabrück, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany (e-mail: wolfgang@mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

For two stochastically dependent random variables X andY taking values in {0,…, m−1}, we studythe distribution of the random residue U = XY modm. Our main result is an upper bound for the distanceΔm = supxΕ[0,1]ȣ P(U/m ≤ x)−xȣ. Forindependent and uniformly distributed X and Y, theexact distribution of U is derived and shown to bestochastically smaller than the uniform distribution on{0,…, m−1}. Moreover, in this caseΔm is given explicitly.