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Repetition factorization of automatic sequences

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2023-11-30 v2 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

Following Inoue et al., we define a word to be a repetition if it is a (fractional) power of exponent at least 2. A word has a repetition factorization if it is the product of repetitions. We study repetition factorizations in several (generalized) automatic sequences, including the infinite Fibonacci word, the Thue-Morse word, paperfolding words, and the Rudin-Shapiro sequence.

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@article{arxiv.2311.14961,
  title  = {Repetition factorization of automatic sequences},
  author = {Jeffrey Shallit and Xinhao Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.14961},
  year   = {2023}
}
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