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A new estimate on complexity of binary generalized pseudostandard words

Combinatorics 2016-11-18 v1

Abstract

Generalized pseudostandard words were introduced by de Luca and De Luca in 2006. In comparison to the palindromic and pseudopalindromic closure, only little is known about the generalized pseudopalindromic closure and the associated generalized pseudostandard words. We present a counterexample to Conjecture 43 from a paper by Blondin Mass\'e et al. that estimated the complexity of binary generalized pseudostandard words as C(n)4n{\mathcal C}(n) \leq 4n for all sufficiently large nn. We conjecture that C(n)<6n{\mathcal C}(n)<6n for all nNn \in \mathbb N.

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@article{arxiv.1611.05482,
  title  = {A new estimate on complexity of binary generalized pseudostandard words},
  author = {Lubomira Dvorakova and Josef Florian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05482},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Portions of this paper appeared as arXiv:1408.5210, which was divided into two parts during refereeing. The other part is available at arXiv:1508.02020

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