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A local balance property of episturmian words

Discrete Mathematics 2008-02-07 v2

Abstract

We prove that episturmian words and Arnoux-Rauzy sequences can be characterized using a local balance property. We also give a new characterization of epistandard words and show that the set of finite words that are not factors of an episturmian word is not context-free.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0702060,
  title  = {A local balance property of episturmian words},
  author = {Gwénaël Richomme},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0702060},
  year   = {2008}
}