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Perfectly Clustering Words and Iterated Palindromes over a Ternary Alphabet

Combinatorics 2024-06-25 v1

Abstract

Recently, a new characterization of Lyndon words that are also perfectly clustering was proposed by Lapointe and Reutenauer (2024). A word over a ternary alphabet {a,b,c} is called perfectly clustering Lyndon if and only if it is the product of two palindromes and it can be written as apbqc where p and q are palindromes. We study the properties of palindromes appearing as factors p and q and their links with iterated palindromes over a ternary alphabet.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16410,
  title  = {Perfectly Clustering Words and Iterated Palindromes over a Ternary Alphabet},
  author = {Mélodie Lapointe and Nathan Plourde-Hébert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16410},
  year   = {2024}
}

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In Proceedings GASCom 2024, arXiv:2406.14588