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Existence of an infinite ternary 64-abelian square-free word

Mari Huova (2014)

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We consider a recently defined notion of of words by concentrating on avoidance problems. The equivalence class of a word depends on the numbers of occurrences of different factors of length for a fixed natural number and the prefix of the word. We have shown earlier that over a ternary alphabet -abelian squares cannot be avoided in pure morphic words for any natural number . Nevertheless, computational experiments support the conjecture that even 3-abelian squares...

5-abelian cubes are avoidable on binary alphabets

Robert Mercaş, Aleksi Saarela (2014)

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A -abelian cube is a word , where the factors , , and are either pairwise equal, or have the same multiplicities for every one of their factors of length at most . Previously it has been shown that -abelian cubes are avoidable over a binary alphabet for ≥ 8. Here it is proved that this holds for ≥ 5.

Finite repetition threshold for large alphabets

Golnaz Badkobeh, Maxime Crochemore, Michaël Rao (2014)

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We investigate the finite repetition threshold for -letter alphabets, ≥ 4, that is the smallest number for which there exists an infinite -free word containing a finite number of -powers. We show that there exists an infinite Dejean word on a 4-letter alphabet (a word without factors of exponent more than 7/5 ) containing only two 7/5 -powers. For a 5-letter alphabet, we show that there exists an infinite Dejean word containing only 60 5/4 -powers, and we conjecture...

An aperiodicity problem for multiwords

Véronique Bruyère, Olivier Carton, Alexandre Decan, Olivier Gauwin, Jef Wijsen (2012)

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Multiwords are words in which a single symbol can be replaced by a nonempty set of symbols. They extend the notion of partial words. A word is in a multiword if it occurs in word that can be obtained by selecting one single symbol among the symbols provided in each position of . Motivated by a problem on incomplete databases, we investigate a variant of the pattern matching problem which is to decide whether a word is certain in a multiword . We study the language CERTAIN() of multiwords...

An aperiodicity problem for multiwords

Véronique Bruyère, Olivier Carton, Alexandre Decan, Olivier Gauwin, Jef Wijsen (2012)

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Multiwords are words in which a single symbol can be replaced by a nonempty set of symbols. They extend the notion of partial words. A word is in a multiword if it occurs in word that can be obtained by selecting one single symbol among the symbols provided in each position of . Motivated by a problem on incomplete databases, we investigate a variant of the pattern matching problem which is to decide whether a word is certain in a multiword . We study the language CERTAIN() of multiwords...

Look and Say Fibonacci

Patrice Séébold (2010)

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The () derivative of a word is obtained by writing the number of consecutive equal letters when the word is spelled from left to right. For example, 1 1 2 3 3) = 2 1 1 2 2 3 (two , one , two ). We start the study of the behaviour of binary words generated by morphisms under the operator, focusing in particular on the Fibonacci word.

Return words in Sturmian and episturmian words

Jacques Justin, Laurent Vuillon (2010)

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Considering each occurrence of a word in a recurrent infinite word, we define the set of return words of to be the set of all distinct words beginning with an occurrence of and ending exactly just before the next occurrence of in the infinite word. We give a simpler proof of the recent result (of the second author) that an infinite word is Sturmian if and only if each of its factors has exactly two return words in it. Then, considering episturmian infinite words, which are a natural generalization...