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Automatic complexity of Fibonacci and Tribonacci words

Discrete Mathematics 2020-10-15 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

For a complexity function CC, the lower and upper CC-complexity rates of an infinite word x\mathbf{x} are C(x)=lim infnC(xn)n,C(x)=lim supnC(xn)n \underline{C}(\mathbf x)=\liminf_{n\to\infty} \frac{C(\mathbf{x}\upharpoonright n)}n,\quad \overline{C}(\mathbf x)=\limsup_{n\to\infty} \frac{C(\mathbf{x}\upharpoonright n)}n respectively. Here xn\mathbf{x}\upharpoonright n is the prefix of xx of length nn. We consider the case C=ANC=\mathrm{A_N}, the nondeterministic automatic complexity. If these rates are strictly between 0 and 1/21/2, we call them intermediate. Our main result is that words having intermediate AN\mathrm{A_N}-rates exist, viz. the infinite Fibonacci and Tribonacci words.

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@article{arxiv.2010.07275,
  title  = {Automatic complexity of Fibonacci and Tribonacci words},
  author = {Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.07275},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Discrete Applied Mathematics, to appear

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