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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 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...

On extremal properties of the Fibonacci word

Julien Cassaigne (2008)

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We survey several quantitative problems on infinite words related to repetitions, recurrence, and palindromes, for which the Fibonacci word often exhibits extremal behaviour.