Representations of real numbers induced by probability distributions on $\mathbb{N}$

Abstract

We observe that a probability distribution supported by $\mathbb{N}$, induces a representation of real numbers in [0, 1) with digits in $\mathbb{N}$. We first study the Hausdorff dimension of sets with prescribed digits with respect to these representations. Than we determine the prevalent frequency of digits and the Hausdorff dimension of sets with prescribed frequencies of digits. As examples we consider the geometric distribution, the Poisson distribution and the zeta distribution.