Lengths of extremal square-free ternary words
Combinatorics
2020-02-03 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Abstract
A square-free word over a fixed alphabet is extremal if every word obtained from by inserting a single letter from (at any position) contains a square. Grytczuk et al. recently introduced the concept of extremal square-free word, and demonstrated that there are arbitrarily long extremal square-free ternary words. We find all lengths which admit an extremal square-free ternary word. In particular, we show that there is an extremal square-free ternary word of every sufficiently large length. We also solve the analogous problem for circular words.
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@article{arxiv.2001.11763,
title = {Lengths of extremal square-free ternary words},
author = {Lucas Mol and Narad Rampersad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11763},
year = {2020}
}