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Abelian pattern avoidance in partial words

F. Blanchet-Sadri, Benjamin De Winkle, Sean Simmons (2014)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

Pattern avoidance is an important topic in combinatorics on words which dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century when Thue constructed an infinite word over a ternary alphabet that avoids squares, i.e., a word with no two adjacent identical factors. This result finds applications in various algebraic contexts where more general patterns than squares are considered. On the other hand, Erdős raised the question as to whether there exists an infinite word that avoids abelian squares, i.e.,...

Abelian periods, partial words, and an extension of a theorem of Fine and Wilf

Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Sean Simmons, Amelia Tebbe, Amy Veprauskas (2013)

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Recently, Constantinescu and Ilie proved a variant of the well-known periodicity theorem of Fine and Wilf in the case of two relatively prime abelian periods and conjectured a result for the case of two non-relatively prime abelian periods. In this paper, we answer some open problems they suggested. We show that their conjecture is false but we give bounds, that depend on the two abelian periods, such that the conjecture is true for all words having length at least those bounds and show that some...

Algebraic and graph-theoretic properties of infinite n -posets

Zoltán Ésik, Zoltán L. Németh (2005)

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A Σ -labeled n -poset is an (at most) countable set, labeled in the set Σ , equipped with n partial orders. The collection of all Σ -labeled n -posets is naturally equipped with n binary product operations and n ω -ary product operations. Moreover, the ω -ary product operations give rise to n ...

Algebraic and graph-theoretic properties of infinite n-posets

Zoltán Ésik, Zoltán L. Németh (2010)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

A Σ-labeled n-poset is an (at most) countable set, labeled in the set Σ, equipped with n partial orders. The collection of all Σ-labeled n-posets is naturally equipped with n binary product operations and nω-ary product operations. Moreover, the ω-ary product operations give rise to nω-power operations. We show that those Σ-labeled n-posets that can be generated from the singletons by the binary and ω-ary product operations form the free algebra on Σ in a variety axiomatizable by an infinite collection...

Algorithms for Finding Unitals and Maximal Arcs in Projective Planes of Order 16

Stoichev, Stoicho (2007)

Serdica Journal of Computing

The paper has been presented at the International Conference Pioneers of Bulgarian Mathematics, Dedicated to Nikola Obreshkoff and Lubomir Tschakalo ff , Sofia, July, 2006.Two heuristic algorithms (M65 and M52) for finding respectively unitals and maximal arcs in projective planes of order 16 are described. The exact algorithms based on exhaustive search are impractical because of the combinatorial explosion (huge number of combinations to be checked). Algorithms M65 and M52 use unions of orbits...

An algorithm for deciding if a polyomino tiles the plane

Ian Gambini, Laurent Vuillon (2007)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

For polyominoes coded by their boundary word, we describe a quadratic O(n2) algorithm in the boundary length n which improves the naive O(n4) algorithm. Techniques used emanate from algorithmics, discrete geometry and combinatorics on words.

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