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On the number of squares in partial words

Vesa Halava, Tero Harju, Tomi Kärki (2010)

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The theorem of Fraenkel and Simpson states that the maximum number of distinct squares that a word  of length  can contain is less than . This is based on the fact that no more than two squares can have their last occurrences starting at the same position. In this paper we show that the maximum number of the last occurrences of squares per position in a partial word containing one hole is , where is the size of the alphabet. Moreover, we prove that the number of distinct squares in...

Infinite words containing squares at every position

James Currie, Narad Rampersad (2010)

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Richomme asked the following question: what is the infimum of the real numbers > 2 such that there exists an infinite word that avoids -powers but contains arbitrarily large squares beginning at every position? We resolve this question in the case of a binary alphabet by showing that the answer is = 7/3.

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...

Binary words avoiding the pattern AABBCABBA

Pascal Ochem (2010)

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We show that there are three types of infinite words over the two-letter alphabet {0,1} that avoid the pattern . These types, , , and , differ by the factor complexity and the asymptotic frequency of the letter 0. Type has polynomial factor complexity and letter frequency 1 2 . Type has exponential factor complexity and the frequency of the letter 0 is at least 0.45622 and at most 0.48684. Type is obtained from type ...