Distribution Modulo One and Diophantine Approximation

Includes index

Includes bibliography references (p. 257-298)

1. Distribution modulo one
2. On the fractional parts of powers of real numbers
3. On the fractional parts of powers of algebraic numbers
4. Normal numbers
5. Further explicit constructions of normal and non-normal numbers
6. Normality to different bases
7. Diophantine approximation and digital properties
8. Digital expansion of algebraic numbers
9. Continued fraction expansions and beta-expansions
10. Conjectures and open problems

This book presents state-of-the-art research on the distribution modulo one of sequences of integral powers of real numbers and related topics. Most of the results have never before appeared in one book and many of them were proved only during the last decade. Topics covered include the distribution modulo one of the integral powers of 3/2 and the frequency of occurrence of each digit in the decimal expansion of the square root of two. The author takes a point of view from combinatorics on words and introduces a variety of techniques, including explicit constructions of normal numbers, Schmidt's games, Riesz product measures and transcendence results.