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A new measure of asymmetry of binary words

Combinatorics 2010-04-09 v1

Abstract

A binary word is symmetric if it is a palindrome or an antipalindrome. We define a new measure of asymmetry of a binary word equal to the minimal number of letters of the word whose deleting from the word yields a symmetric word and obtain upper and lower estimations of this measure.

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@article{arxiv.1004.1279,
  title  = {A new measure of asymmetry of binary words},
  author = {Alex Ravsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.1279},
  year   = {2010}
}

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