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More characterizations of morphic words

Combinatorics 2025-08-20 v2

Abstract

An interesting phenomenon in combinatorics on words is when every recurrent word satisfying some avoidance constraints has the same factor set as a morphic word. An early example is the Hall-Thue word, fixed point of the morphism 0012\texttt{0}\to\texttt{012}, 102\texttt{1}\to\texttt{02}, 21\texttt{2}\to\texttt{1}, which is essentially the only ternary word avoiding squares and the words \texttt{010} and \texttt{212}. We provide some examples of this phenomenon from various contexts.

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@article{arxiv.2312.10757,
  title  = {More characterizations of morphic words},
  author = {Golnaz Badkobeh and Pascal Ochem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10757},
  year   = {2025}
}
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