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Abelian Nivat's conjecture for non-rectangular patterns

Combinatorics 2021-12-28 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study the relation between periodicity of two-dimensional words and their abelian pattern complexity. A pattern P\cal{P} in Zn\mathbb{Z}^n is the set of all translations of some finite subset FF of Zn\mathbb{Z}^n. An FF-factor of an infinite word is a finite word restricted to FF. Then the pattern complexity over a pattern P\mathcal{P} counts the number of distinct FF-factors of an infinite word, for PPP\in \mathcal{P}. Two finite words are called abelian equivalent if for each letter of the alphabet, they contain the same numbers of occurrences of this letter. The abelian pattern complexity counts the number of FF-factors up to abelian equivalence. As the main result of the paper, we characterize two-dimensional convex patterns with the following property: if abelian pattern complexity over a pattern P\cal{P} is equal to 1, then the word is fully periodic. Similar result holds for a function on Z2\mathbb{Z}^2 instead of a word and for constant sums instead of abelian complexity equal to 1. In dimensional 1, we characterize patterns for which there exist non-constant functions with constant sums.

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@article{arxiv.2111.04690,
  title  = {Abelian Nivat's conjecture for non-rectangular patterns},
  author = {Nikolai Geravker and Svetlana Puzynina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04690},
  year   = {2021}
}
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