Squares and overlaps in the Thue-Morse sequence and some variants
Shandy Brown; Narad Rampersad; Jeffrey Shallit; Troy Vasiga
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications (2006)
- Volume: 40, Issue: 3, page 473-484
- ISSN: 0988-3754
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@article{Brown2006,
abstract = {
We consider the position and number of occurrences of squares
in the Thue-Morse sequence, and show that the corresponding sequences
are 2-regular. We also prove that changing any finite but nonzero
number of bits in the Thue-Morse sequence creates an overlap, and any
linear subsequence of the Thue-Morse sequence (except those corresponding
to decimation by a power of 2) contains an overlap.
},
author = {Brown, Shandy, Rampersad, Narad, Shallit, Jeffrey, Vasiga, Troy},
journal = {RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications},
keywords = {Thue-Morse word; overlap-free word; automatic sequence.; automatic sequence},
language = {eng},
month = {10},
number = {3},
pages = {473-484},
publisher = {EDP Sciences},
title = {Squares and overlaps in the Thue-Morse sequence and some variants},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/249704},
volume = {40},
year = {2006},
}
TY - JOUR
AU - Brown, Shandy
AU - Rampersad, Narad
AU - Shallit, Jeffrey
AU - Vasiga, Troy
TI - Squares and overlaps in the Thue-Morse sequence and some variants
JO - RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications
DA - 2006/10//
PB - EDP Sciences
VL - 40
IS - 3
SP - 473
EP - 484
AB -
We consider the position and number of occurrences of squares
in the Thue-Morse sequence, and show that the corresponding sequences
are 2-regular. We also prove that changing any finite but nonzero
number of bits in the Thue-Morse sequence creates an overlap, and any
linear subsequence of the Thue-Morse sequence (except those corresponding
to decimation by a power of 2) contains an overlap.
LA - eng
KW - Thue-Morse word; overlap-free word; automatic sequence.; automatic sequence
UR - http://eudml.org/doc/249704
ER -
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