scholarly journals Lyndon factorization of generalized words of Thue

2002 ◽  
Vol Vol. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Černý

International audience The i-th symbol of the well-known infinite word of Thue on the alphabet \ 0,1\ can be characterized as the parity of the number of occurrences of the digit 1 in the binary notation of i. Generalized words of Thue are based on counting the parity of occurrences of an arbitrary word w∈\ 0,1\^+-0^* in the binary notation of i. We provide here the standard Lyndon factorization of some subclasses of this class of infinite words.

2001 ◽  
Vol Vol. 4 no. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ján Maňuch

International audience Let X be a two-element set of words over a finite alphabet. If a bi-infinite word possesses two X-factorizations which are not shiftequivalent, then the primitive roots of the words in X are conjugates. Note, that this is a strict sharpening of a defect theorem for bi-infinite words stated in \emphKMP. Moreover, we prove that there is at most one bi-infinite word possessing two different X-factorizations and give a necessary and sufficient conditions on X for the existence of such a word. Finally, we prove that the family of sets X for which such a word exists is parameterizable.


2007 ◽  
Vol Vol. 9 no. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwenael Richomme

International audience In a previous paper, we characterized free monoid morphisms preserving finite Lyndon words. In particular, we proved that such a morphism preserves the order on finite words. Here we study morphisms preserving infinite Lyndon words and morphisms preserving the order on infinite words. We characterize them and show relations with morphisms preserving Lyndon words or the order on finite words. We also briefly study morphisms preserving border-free words and those preserving the radix order.


Author(s):  
José Carlos Costa ◽  
Conceição Nogueira ◽  
Maria Lurdes Teixeira

We study ultimate periodicity properties related to overlaps between the suffixes of a left-infinite word [Formula: see text] and the prefixes of a right-infinite word [Formula: see text]. The main theorem states that the set of minimum lengths of words [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] is finite, where [Formula: see text] runs over positive integers and [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are respectively the suffix of [Formula: see text] and the prefix of [Formula: see text] of length [Formula: see text], if and only if [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are ultimately periodic words of the form [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] for some finite words [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text].


2007 ◽  
Vol Vol. 9 no. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Séébold

International audience Hilbert words correspond to finite approximations of the Hilbert space filling curve. The Hilbert infinite word H is obtained as the limit of these words. It gives a description of the Hilbert (infinite) curve. We give a uniform tag-system to generate automatically H and, by showing that it is almost cube-free, we prove that it cannot be obtained by simply iterating a morphism.


Author(s):  
Christophe Reutenauer

The Markoff property is a combinatorial property of infinite words on the alphabet {a,b}, and of bi-infinite words. Such a word has this property if whenever there is a factor xy in the word,with x,y equal to the letters a,b (in some order), then itmay be extended into a factor of the formym’xymx, wherem’ is the reversal ofm, and where the length ofmis bounded (the bound depends only on the infinite word). As discussed in this chapter, the main theorem, due toMarkoff, is that this property implies periodicity, with a periodic pattern which must be a Christoffel word. It is one of the crucial results inMarkoff’s theory.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN MAUDUIT ◽  
CARLOS GUSTAVO MOREIRA

The complexity function of an infinite word $w$ on a finite alphabet $A$ is the sequence counting, for each non-negative $n$, the number of words of length $n$ on the alphabet $A$ that are factors of the infinite word $w$. For any given function $f$ with exponential growth, we introduced in [Complexity and fractal dimensions for infinite sequences with positive entropy. Commun. Contemp. Math. to appear] the notion of word entropy$E_{W}(f)$ associated to $f$ and we described the combinatorial structure of sets of infinite words with a complexity function bounded by $f$. The goal of this work is to give estimates on the word entropy $E_{W}(f)$ in terms of the limiting lower exponential growth rate of $f$.


2011 ◽  
Vol Vol. 13 no. 3 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Ambrož ◽  
Anna Frid ◽  
Zuzana Masáková ◽  
Edita Pelantová

Graph Theory International audience We consider exchange of three intervals with permutation (3, 2, 1). The aim of this paper is to count the cardinality of the set 3iet (N) of all words of length N which appear as factors in infinite words coding such transformations. We use the strong relation of 3iet words and words coding exchange of two intervals, i.e., Sturmian words. The known asymptotic formula #2iet(N)/N-3 similar to 1/pi(2) for the number of Sturmian factors allows us to find bounds 1/3 pi(2) +o(1) \textless= #3iet(N)N-4 \textless= 2 pi(2) + o(1)


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 171-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwenaël Richomme

Answering a question of G. Fici, we give an [Formula: see text]-adic characterization of the family of infinite LSP words, that is, the family of infinite words having all their left special factors as prefixes. More precisely we provide a finite set of morphisms [Formula: see text] and an automaton [Formula: see text] such that an infinite word is LSP if and only if it is [Formula: see text]-adic and one of its directive words is recognizable by [Formula: see text]. Then we characterize the endomorphisms that preserve the property of being LSP for infinite words. This allows us to prove that there exists no set [Formula: see text] of endomorphisms for which the set of infinite LSP words corresponds to the set of [Formula: see text]-adic words. This implies that an automaton is required no matter which set of morphisms is used.


2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 145-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTURO CARPI ◽  
VALERIO D'ALONZO

With any infinite word w we associate a function, called the repetitivity index, giving, for any non-negative integer n, the minimal distance between any two occurrences of identical factors of length n in w. Some properties of the repetitivity index are studied concerning, in particular, periodic words, synchronized sequences, smooth words.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1463-1470 ◽  
Author(s):  
TETURO KAMAE ◽  
PAVEL V. SALIMOV

AbstractThe pattern complexity of a word for a given pattern S, where S is a finite subset of {0,1,2,…}, is the number of distinct restrictions of the word to S+n (with n=0,1,2,…). The maximal pattern complexity of the word, introduced in the paper of T. Kamae and L. Zamboni [Sequence entropy and the maximal pattern complexity of infinite words. Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys.22(4) (2002), 1191–1199], is the maximum value of the pattern complexity of S with #S=k as a function of k=1,2,…. A substitution of constant length on an alphabet is a mapping from the alphabet to finite words on it of constant length not less than two. An infinite word is called a fixed point of the substitution if it stays the same after the substitution is applied. In this paper, we prove that the maximal pattern complexity of a fixed point of a substitution of constant length on {0,1} (as a function of k=1,2,…) is either bounded, a linear function of k, or 2k.


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