Avoiding squares over words with lists of size three amongst four symbols
Abstract
In 2007, Grytczuk conjecture that for any sequence of alphabets of size there exists a square-free infinite word such that for all , the -th letter of belongs to . The result of Thue of 1906 implies that there is an infinite square-free word if all the are identical. On the other, hand Grytczuk, Przyby{\l}o and Zhu showed in 2011 that it also holds if the are of size instead of . In this article, we first show that if the lists are of size , the number of square-free words is at least (the previous similar bound was ). We then show our main result: we can construct such a square-free word if the lists are subsets of size of the same alphabet of size . Our proof also implies that there are at least square-free words of length for any such list assignment. This proof relies on the existence of a set of coefficients verified with a computer. We suspect that the full conjecture could be resolved by this method with a much more powerful computer (but we might need to wait a few decades for such a computer to be available).
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@article{arxiv.2104.09965,
title = {Avoiding squares over words with lists of size three amongst four symbols},
author = {Matthieu Rosenfeld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09965},
year = {2021}
}