Density dichotomy in random words
Combinatorics
2016-10-18 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
Word is said to encounter word provided there is a homomorphism mapping letters to nonempty words so that is a substring of . For example, taking such that and , we see that "science" encounters "huh" since . The density of in , , is the proportion of substrings of that are homomorphic images of . So the density of "huh" in "science" is . A word is doubled if every letter that appears in the word appears at least twice. The dichotomy: Let be a word over any alphabet, a finite alphabet with at least 2 letters, and chosen uniformly at random. Word is doubled if and only if as . We further explore convergence for nondoubled words and concentration of the limit distribution for doubled words around its mean.
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@article{arxiv.1504.04424,
title = {Density dichotomy in random words},
author = {Joshua Cooper and Danny Rorabaugh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04424},
year = {2016}
}
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12 pages