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Christoffel Matrices and Sturmian Determinants

Combinatorics 2024-09-17 v1 Discrete Mathematics Number Theory

Abstract

We discuss certain matrices associated with Christoffel words, and show that they have a group structure. We compute their determinants and show a relationship between the Zolotareff symbol from number theory.

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@article{arxiv.2409.09824,
  title  = {Christoffel Matrices and Sturmian Determinants},
  author = {Christophe Reutenauer and Jeffrey Shallit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09824},
  year   = {2024}
}
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