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A length bound for binary equality words

Jana Hadravová (2011)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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Let w be an equality word of two binary non-periodic morphisms g , h : { a , b } * → Δ * with unique overflows. It is known that if w contains at least 25 occurrences of each of the letters a and b , then it has to have one of the following special forms: up to the exchange of the letters a and b either w = ( a b ) i a , or w = a i b j with gcd ( i , j ) = 1 . We will generalize the result, justify this bound and prove that it can be lowered to nine occurrences of each of the letters a and b .

Periodicity problem of substitutions over ternary alphabets

Bo Tan, Zhi-Ying Wen (2008)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

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In this paper, we characterize the substitutions over a three-letter alphabet which generate a ultimately periodic sequence.

Directive words of episturmian words: equivalences and normalization

Amy Glen, Florence Levé, Gwénaël Richomme (2008)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

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Episturmian morphisms constitute a powerful tool to study episturmian words. Indeed, any episturmian word can be infinitely decomposed over the set of pure episturmian morphisms. Thus, an episturmian word can be defined by one of its morphic decompositions or, equivalently, by a certain directive word. Here we characterize pairs of words directing the same episturmian word. We also propose a way to uniquely define any episturmian word through a normalization of its directive words....

On some problems related to palindrome closure

Michelangelo Bucci, Aldo de Luca, Alessandro De Luca, Luca Q. Zamboni (2008)

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In this paper, we solve some open problems related to (pseudo)palindrome closure operators and to the infinite words generated by their iteration, that is, standard episturmian and pseudostandard words. We show that if is an involutory antimorphism of , then the right and left -palindromic closures of any factor of a -standard word are also factors of some -standard word. We also introduce the class of pseudostandard words with “seed”, obtained by iterated pseudopalindrome closure...

Directive words of episturmian words : equivalences and normalization

Amy Glen, Florence Levé, Gwénaël Richomme (2009)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

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Episturmian morphisms constitute a powerful tool to study episturmian words. Indeed, any episturmian word can be infinitely decomposed over the set of pure episturmian morphisms. Thus, an episturmian word can be defined by one of its morphic decompositions or, equivalently, by a certain directive word. Here we characterize pairs of words directing the same episturmian word. We also propose a way to uniquely define any episturmian word through a normalization of its directive words. As...

Standard factors of Sturmian words

Gwénaël Richomme, Kalle Saari, Luca Q. Zamboni (2010)

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Among the various ways to construct a characteristic Sturmian word, one of the most used consists in defining an infinite sequence of prefixes that are standard. Nevertheless in any characteristic word , some standard words occur that are not prefixes of . We characterize all standard words occurring in any characteristic word (and so in any Sturmian word) using firstly morphisms, then standard prefixes and finally palindromes.