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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 1997 Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 839–845 (Mi tvp2620)

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$p$-adic behavior of Bernoulli probabilities

A. Yu. Khrennikovab

a Mathematical Institute, Bochum University, Germany
b Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology (Technical University)

Abstract: We study the standard Bernoulli probabilistic scheme for independent random variables (the symmetric case). As usual, we are interested in limits of probabilities when the number of trails approaches infinity. However, these limits are considered with respect to the $p$-adic metric. This is a sufficiently exotic metric and it is surprising that ordinary (classical) probabilities have limits with respect to this metric. Thus we found a new asymptotic of the classical Bernoulli probabilities which was not visible before.

Keywords: Bernoulli probability, Bernoulli scheme, $p$-adic numbers, metric, binomial coefficients.

Received: 26.11.1996

DOI: 10.4213/tvp2620


 English version:
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 1998, 42:4, 689–694

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