Equidistribution Properties of Generalized Nets and Sequences

Generalized digital nets and sequences have been introduced for the numerical integration of smooth functions using quasi-Monte Carlo rules. In this paper we study geometrical properties of such nets and sequences. The definition of these nets and sequences does not depend on linear algebra over finite fields, it only requires that the point set or sequence satisfies certain distributional properties. Generalized digital nets and sequences appear as special cases. We prove some propagation rules and give bounds on the quality parameter t.