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Confluent Parry numbers, their spectra, and integers in positive- and negative-base number systems

Combinatorics 2014-02-19 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In this paper we study the expansions of real numbers in positive and negative real base as introduced by R\'enyi, and Ito & Sadahiro, respectively. In particular, we compare the sets Zβ+\mathbb{Z}_\beta^+ and Zβ\mathbb{Z}_{-\beta} of nonnegative β\beta-integers and (β)(-\beta)-integers. We describe all bases (±β)(\pm\beta) for which Zβ+\mathbb{Z}_\beta^+ and Zβ\mathbb{Z}_{-\beta} can be coded by infinite words which are fixed points of conjugated morphisms, and consequently have the same language. Moreover, we prove that this happens precisely for β\beta with another interesting property, namely that any integer linear combination of non-negative powers of the base β-\beta with coefficients in {0,1,,β}\{0,1,\dots,\lfloor\beta\rfloor\} is a (β)(-\beta)-integer, although the corresponding sequence of digits is forbidden as a (β)(-\beta)-integer.

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@article{arxiv.1402.4314,
  title  = {Confluent Parry numbers, their spectra, and integers in positive- and negative-base number systems},
  author = {Daniel Dombek and Zuzana Masáková and Tomáš Vávra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4314},
  year   = {2014}
}

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22pp