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A Symmetry Property of Christoffel Words

Combinatorics 2024-06-25 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

Motivated by the theory of trapezoidal words, whose sequences of cardinality of factors by length are symmetric, we introduce a bivariate variant of this symmetry. We show that this symmetry characterizes Christoffel words, and establish other related results.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16408,
  title  = {A Symmetry Property of Christoffel Words},
  author = {Yan Lanciault and Christophe Reutenauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16408},
  year   = {2024}
}

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In Proceedings GASCom 2024, arXiv:2406.14588