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Equidistribution of values of rational functions (mod p)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

R. W. K. Odoni
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland, U.K
P. G. Spain
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland, U.K.; Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel

Extract

Let R1(x),…, Rd(x) be rational functions in Iℚ(x), such that 1, R1(x),…, Rd(x) are linearly independent over Iℚ. For almost all primes p, their mod p reductions, are well-defined rational functions over Fp and are linearly independent over Fp We show that asymptotically the points

are uniformly distributed in [0, l)d.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1995

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