English

Automatic sequences based on Parry or Bertrand numeration systems

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2018-10-29 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We study the factor complexity and closure properties of automatic sequences based on Parry or Bertrand numeration systems. These automatic sequences can be viewed as generalizations of the more typical kk-automatic sequences and Pisot-automatic sequences. We show that, like kk-automatic sequences, Parry-automatic sequences have sublinear factor complexity while there exist Bertrand-automatic sequences with superlinear factor complexity. We prove that the set of Parry-automatic sequences with respect to a fixed Parry numeration system is not closed under taking images by uniform substitutions or periodic deletion of letters. These closure properties hold for kk-automatic sequences and Pisot-automatic sequences, so our result shows that these properties are lost when generalizing to Parry numeration systems and beyond. Moreover, we show that a multidimensional sequence is UU-automatic with respect to a positional numeration system UU with regular language of numeration if and only if its UU-kernel is finite.

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@article{arxiv.1810.11081,
  title  = {Automatic sequences based on Parry or Bertrand numeration systems},
  author = {Adeline Massuir and Jarkko Peltomäki and Michel Rigo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11081},
  year   = {2018}
}
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