English

Concerning Kurosaki's squarefree word

Combinatorics 2013-08-12 v1

Abstract

In 2008, Kurosaki gave a new construction of a (bi-)infinite squarefree word over three letters. We show that in fact Kurosaki's word avoids 7/4+-powers, which, as shown by Dejean, is optimal over a 3-letter alphabet.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1308.2163,
  title  = {Concerning Kurosaki's squarefree word},
  author = {Serina Camungol and Narad Rampersad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2163},
  year   = {2013}
}
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