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Statistical independence of nonlinear congruential pseudorandom numbers. (English) Zbl 0652.65007
Nonlinear congruential pseudorandom numbers were introduced by J. Eichenauer, H. Grothe and J. Lehn [Metrika 35, 241-250 (1988))] in the following way. Let p be large prime and generate a sequence $$y_ 0,y_ 1,..$$. of integers in $$F_ p=\{0,1,...,p-1\}$$ by the recursion $$y_{n+1}\equiv f(y_ n)mod p$$ for $$n=0,1,...$$, where f is an integer-valued function on $$F_ p$$ such that the sequence of $$y_ n$$ is purely periodic with period $$p$$ and $$\{y_ 0,y_ 1,...,y_{p- 1}\}=F_ p$$. Then the pseudorandom numbers $$x_ n$$ are obtained by $$x_ n=y_ n/p$$. The following equivalent description was given by the author [Metrika (to appear)]: there exists a uniquely determined polynomial $$g$$ over the finite field $$F_ p$$ such that $$y_ n=g(n)$$ for all $$n\in F_ p$$ and $$1\leq s:=\deg (g)\leq p-2$$, where $$\{g(0),g(1),...,g(p-1)\}=F_ p.$$
In the present paper the behavior of these pseudorandom numbers under the $$k$$-dimensional serial test is investigated by considering the discrepancy $$D_ N^{(k)}$$ of the points $$\bar x_ n=(x_ n,x_{n+1},...,x_{n+k-1})$$, $$n=0,1,...,N-1$$. It is shown that $$D_ p^{(k)}=O(sp^{-1/2}(\log p)^ k)$$ for all $$k\leq s$$ and $$D_ N^{(K)}=O(N^{-1}sp^{1/2}(\log p)^{k+1})$$ for $$1\leq N<p$$ and all $$k\leq s-1$$. It is also proved that these bounds are essentially best possible. As a consequence, nonlinear congruential pseudorandom numbers with an appropriate value of $$s$$ have satisfactory statistical independence properties up to rather high dimensions.
Reviewer: H.Niederreiter

##### MSC:
 65C10 Random number generation in numerical analysis 11K16 Normal numbers, radix expansions, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, good lattice points, etc. 11K45 Pseudo-random numbers; Monte Carlo methods
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