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Circular critical exponents for Thue-Morse factors

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2018-08-09 v1 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove various results about the largest exponent of a repetition in a factor of the Thue-Morse word, when that factor is considered as a circular word. Our results confirm and generalize previous results of Fitzpatrick and Aberkane & Currie.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.02529,
  title  = {Circular critical exponents for Thue-Morse factors},
  author = {Jeffrey Shallit and Ramin Zarifi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02529},
  year   = {2018}
}
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