Random walk tests of reciprocal m-sequences

There are reported statistically apparent differences between some msequences and their reciprocal m-sequences, observed in simulations of 1-dimensional random walk functional, such as maxima and sojourn times of sample paths. Less attention to differences between m-sequences and their reciprocal sequences has been paid in most of theoretical and empirical researches. Algebraic theoretical explanation of these results seems to be a very difficult problem, because the feedback polynomial of a reciprocal m-sequence is the reciprocal polynomial of that of the corresponding m-sequence, and because the algebraic properties of a polynomial and those of its reciprocal polynomial are considered to be similar. Keyword: m-sequence, reciprocal polynomial, reciprocal m-sequence, random walk tests.