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Complexity of Substitutive Sequences - Calculation of the Complexities of Substitutive Sequences Over a Binary Alphabet

Combinatorics 2015-07-16 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We consider the complexities of substitutive sequences over a binary alphabet. By studying various types of special words, we show that, knowing some initial values, its complexity can be completely formulated via a recurrence formula determined by the characteristic polynomial.

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@article{arxiv.1507.03058,
  title  = {Complexity of Substitutive Sequences - Calculation of the Complexities of Substitutive Sequences Over a Binary Alphabet},
  author = {Bo Tan and Zhi-Xiong Wen and Yiping Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03058},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages