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A Decision Problem for Ultimately Periodic Sets in Non-standard Numeration Systems

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2009-07-06 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Consider a non-standard numeration system like the one built over the Fibonacci sequence where nonnegative integers are represented by words over {0,1}\{0,1\} without two consecutive 1. Given a set XX of integers such that the language of their greedy representations in this system is accepted by a finite automaton, we consider the problem of deciding whether or not XX is a finite union of arithmetic progressions. We obtain a decision procedure for this problem, under some hypothesis about the considered numeration system. In a second part, we obtain an analogous decision result for a particular class of abstract numeration systems built on an infinite regular language.

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@article{arxiv.0907.0620,
  title  = {A Decision Problem for Ultimately Periodic Sets in Non-standard Numeration Systems},
  author = {J. Bell and E. Charlier and A. S. Fraenkel and M. Rigo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0620},
  year   = {2009}
}
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