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Polyominoes and graphs built from Fibonacci words

Combinatorics 2022-11-11 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We introduce the kk-bonacci polyominoes, a new family of polyominoes associated with the binary words avoiding kk consecutive 11's, also called generalized kk-bonacci words. The polyominoes are very entrancing objects, considered in combinatorics and computer science. The study of polyominoes generates a rich source of combinatorial ideas. In this paper we study some properties of kk-bonacci polyominoes. Specifically, we determine their recursive structure and, using this structure, we enumerate them according to their area, semiperimeter, and length of the corresponding words. We also introduce the kk-bonacci graphs, then we obtain the generating functions for the total number of vertices and edges, the distribution of the degrees, and the total number of kk-bonacci graphs that have a Hamiltonian cycle.

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@article{arxiv.2211.05460,
  title  = {Polyominoes and graphs built from Fibonacci words},
  author = {Sergey Kirgizov and José Luis Ramírez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05460},
  year   = {2022}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures

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