English

A Coloring Problem for Infinite Words

Combinatorics 2014-03-26 v4 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In this paper we consider the following question in the spirit of Ramsey theory: Given xAω,x\in A^\omega, where AA is a finite non-empty set, does there exist a finite coloring of the non-empty factors of xx with the property that no factorization of xx is monochromatic? We prove that this question has a positive answer using two colors for almost all words relative to the standard Bernoulli measure on Aω.A^\omega. We also show that it has a positive answer for various classes of uniformly recurrent words, including all aperiodic balanced words, and all words xAωx\in A^\omega satisfying λx(n+1)λx(n)=1\lambda_x(n+1)-\lambda_x(n)=1 for all nn sufficiently large, where λx(n) \lambda_x(n) denotes the number of distinct factors of xx of length n.n.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1307.2828,
  title  = {A Coloring Problem for Infinite Words},
  author = {Aldo de Luca and Elena V. Pribavkina and Luca Q. Zamboni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2828},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: incorporates 1301.5263

R2 v1 2026-06-22T00:49:04.597Z