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 where is a finite non-empty set, does there exist a finite coloring of the non-empty factors of with the property that no factorization of 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 We also show that it has a positive answer for various classes of uniformly recurrent words, including all aperiodic balanced words, and all words satisfying for all sufficiently large, where denotes the number of distinct factors of of length
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