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On a conjecture about the absence of an initial balanced pair for Pisot substitutions

Combinatorics 2017-11-29 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Sellami and Sirvent conjectured that the balanced pair algorithm fails for the following pair of Pisot substitutions: φ0:aabcbacac and φ1:acbabacca. \varphi_0: \begin{array}{l} a \mapsto abc b \mapsto a c \mapsto ac \end{array} \quad \text{ and } \quad \varphi_1: \begin{array}{l} a \mapsto cba b \mapsto a c \mapsto ca \end{array}. The conjecture stated the balanced pair algorithm fails because there is no initial balanced pair. In the present note we prove this conjecture using a method based on simultaneous coding of the pair of the fixed points of the morphisms.

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@article{arxiv.1711.10167,
  title  = {On a conjecture about the absence of an initial balanced pair for Pisot substitutions},
  author = {Víctor F. Sirvent and Štěpán Starosta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10167},
  year   = {2017}
}

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