Authors:
Andrew Klapper, 779A Anderson Hall, Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0046, klapper at cs.uky.edu.
www.cs.uky.edu/~klapper/andy.html
Mark Goresky, Institute for Advanced Study
Lawrence Washington, University of Maryland
Abstract An arithmetic or with-carry analog of Blahut's theorem is presented. This relates the length of the smallest feedback with carry shift register to the number of nonzero classical Fourier coefficients of a periodic binary sequence.
Index Terms -- Periodic binary sequence; feedback register; Fourier coefficients; Blahut's theorem; 2-adic numbers.