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A note on a conjecture of Duval and sturmian words

Filippo Mignosi, Luca Q. Zamboni (2002)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

We prove a long standing conjecture of Duval in the special case of sturmian words.

A note on constructing infinite binary words with polynomial subword complexity

Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Bob Chen, Sinziana Munteanu (2013)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

Most of the constructions of infinite words having polynomial subword complexity are quite complicated, e.g., sequences of Toeplitz, sequences defined by billiards in the cube, etc. In this paper, we describe a simple method for constructing infinite words w over a binary alphabet  { a,b }  with polynomial subword complexity pw. Assuming w contains an infinite number of a’s, our method is based on the gap function which gives the distances between consecutive b’s. It is known that if the gap function...

A note on domination in bipartite graphs

Tobias Gerlach, Jochen Harant (2002)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

DOMINATING SET remains NP-complete even when instances are restricted to bipartite graphs, however, in this case VERTEX COVER is solvable in polynomial time. Consequences to VECTOR DOMINATING SET as a generalization of both are discussed.

A note on the hardness results for the labeled perfect matching problems in bipartite graphs

Jérôme Monnot (2008)

RAIRO - Operations Research

In this note, we strengthen the inapproximation bound of O(logn) for the labeled perfect matching problem established in J. Monnot, The Labeled perfect matching in bipartite graphs, Information Processing Letters96 (2005) 81–88, using a self improving operation in some hard instances. It is interesting to note that this self improving operation does not work for all instances. Moreover, based on this approach we deduce that the problem does not admit constant approximation algorithms for connected...

A note on the number of squares in a partial word with one hole

Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Robert Mercaş (2009)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

A well known result of Fraenkel and Simpson states that the number of distinct squares in a word of length n is bounded by 2n since at each position there are at most two distinct squares whose last occurrence starts. In this paper, we investigate squares in partial words with one hole, or sequences over a finite alphabet that have a “do not know” symbol or “hole”. A square in a partial word over a given alphabet has the form uv where u is compatible with v, and consequently, such square is...

A note on tree realizations of matrices

Alain Hertz, Sacha Varone (2007)

RAIRO - Operations Research

It is well known that each tree metric M has a unique realization as a tree, and that this realization minimizes the total length of the edges among all other realizations of M. We extend this result to the class of symmetric matrices M with zero diagonal, positive entries, and such that mij + mkl ≤ max{mik + mjl, mil + mjk} for all distinct i,j,k,l.

A note on univoque self-sturmian numbers

Jean-Paul Allouche (2008)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

We compare two sets of (infinite) binary sequences whose suffixes satisfy extremal conditions: one occurs when studying iterations of unimodal continuous maps from the unit interval into itself, but it also characterizes univoque real numbers; the other is a disguised version of the set of characteristic sturmian sequences. As a corollary to our study we obtain that a real number β in ( 1 , 2 ) is univoque and self-sturmian if and only if the β -expansion of 1 is of the form 1 v , where v is a characteristic...

A note on univoque self-Sturmian numbers

Jean-Paul Allouche (2010)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

We compare two sets of (infinite) binary sequences whose suffixes satisfy extremal conditions: one occurs when studying iterations of unimodal continuous maps from the unit interval into itself, but it also characterizes univoque real numbers; the other is a disguised version of the set of characteristic Sturmian sequences. As a corollary to our study we obtain that a real number β in (1,2) is univoque and self-Sturmian if and only if the β-expansion of 1 is of the form 1v, where v is a characteristic...

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