Dejean's conjecture and letter frequency

Jérémie Chalopin; Pascal Ochem

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications (2008)

  • Volume: 42, Issue: 3, page 477-480
  • ISSN: 0988-3754

Abstract

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We prove two cases of a strong version of Dejean's conjecture involving extremal letter frequencies. The results are that there exist an infinite 5 4 + -free word over a 5 letter alphabet with letter frequency 1 6 and an infinite 6 5 + -free word over a 6 letter alphabet with letter frequency 1 5 .

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Chalopin, Jérémie, and Ochem, Pascal. "Dejean's conjecture and letter frequency." RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications 42.3 (2008): 477-480. <http://eudml.org/doc/250327>.

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abstract = { We prove two cases of a strong version of Dejean's conjecture involving extremal letter frequencies. The results are that there exist an infinite $\left(\{\frac\{5\}\{4\}^+\}\right)$-free word over a 5 letter alphabet with letter frequency $\frac\{1\}\{6\}$ and an infinite $\left(\{\frac\{6\}\{5\}^+\}\right)$-free word over a 6 letter alphabet with letter frequency $\frac\{1\}\{5\}$. },
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AB - We prove two cases of a strong version of Dejean's conjecture involving extremal letter frequencies. The results are that there exist an infinite $\left({\frac{5}{4}^+}\right)$-free word over a 5 letter alphabet with letter frequency $\frac{1}{6}$ and an infinite $\left({\frac{6}{5}^+}\right)$-free word over a 6 letter alphabet with letter frequency $\frac{1}{5}$.
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