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Asymptotic Density of Zimin Words

Combinatorics 2023-06-22 v3

Abstract

Word WW is an instance of word VV provided there is a homomorphism ϕ\phi mapping letters to nonempty words so that ϕ(V)=W\phi(V) = W. For example, taking ϕ\phi such that ϕ(c)=fr\phi(c)=fr, ϕ(o)=e\phi(o)=e and ϕ(l)=zer\phi(l)=zer, we see that "freezer" is an instance of "cool". Let In(V,[q])\mathbb{I}_n(V,[q]) be the probability that a random length nn word on the alphabet [q]={1,2,q}[q] = \{1,2,\cdots q\} is an instance of VV. Having previously shown that limnIn(V,[q])\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \mathbb{I}_n(V,[q]) exists, we now calculate this limit for two Zimin words, Z2=abaZ_2 = aba and Z3=abacabaZ_3 = abacaba.

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@article{arxiv.1510.03917,
  title  = {Asymptotic Density of Zimin Words},
  author = {Joshua Cooper and Danny Rorabaugh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03917},
  year   = {2023}
}

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