On the large deviations for Engel's, Sylvester's series and Cantor's products

Lingjiong Zhu (New York University)

Abstract


In this paper, we study the large deviations for Engel's series, Sylvester's series and Cantor's products from number theory.

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Publication Date: January 11, 2014

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v19-3194

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