Linear independence of series related to the Thue--Morse sequence along powers
Number Theory
2023-12-13 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Combinatorics
Abstract
The Thue--Morse sequence is the indicator function of the parity of the number of ones in the binary expansion of positive integers , where (resp. ) if the binary expansion of has an odd (resp. even) number of ones. In this paper, we generalize a recent result of E.~Miyanohara by showing that, for a fixed Pisot or Salem number , the set of the numbers is linearly independent over the field , where is the golden ratio. Our result implies that for any and for any , not all zero, the sequence \{ cannot be eventually periodic.
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@article{arxiv.2312.06981,
title = {Linear independence of series related to the Thue--Morse sequence along powers},
author = {Michael Coons and Yohei Tachiya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06981},
year = {2023}
}
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9 pages