Conjugates of characteristic Sturmian words generated by morphisms
Combinatorics
2010-03-16 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
This article is concerned with characteristic Sturmian words of slope and (denoted by and respectively), where is an irrational number such that with . It is known that both and are fixed points of non-trivial (standard) morphisms and , respectively, if and only if has a continued fraction expansion as above. Accordingly, such words and are generated by the respective morphisms and . For the particular case when (), we give a decomposition of each conjugate of (and hence ) into generalized adjoining singular words, by considering conjugates of powers of the standard morphism by which it is generated. This extends a recent result of Lev\'{e} and S\ee bold on conjugates of the infinite Fibonacci word.
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@article{arxiv.0708.4387,
title = {Conjugates of characteristic Sturmian words generated by morphisms},
author = {Amy Glen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.4387},
year = {2010}
}
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11 pages