Digital nets and sequences constructed over finite rings and their application to quasi-Monte Carlo integration

A detailed study of digital (t, m, s)-nets and digital (T,s)-sequences constructed over finite rings is carried out. We present general existence theorems for digital nets and sequences and also explicit constructions. Special attention is devoted to the case where the finite ring is a residue class ring of the integers. This study is motivated by the problem of numerical integration of multivariate Walsh series by quasi-Monte Carlo methods, for which we also provide a general error bound.The third author was supported by the CEI Project PACT, WP5.1.2.1.3.