Similarity density of the Thue-Morse word with overlap-free infinite binary words
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
2014-05-23 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
We consider a measure of similarity for infinite words that generalizes the notion of asymptotic or natural density of subsets of natural numbers from number theory. We show that every overlap-free infinite binary word, other than the Thue-Morse word t and its complement t bar, has this measure of similarity with t between 1/4 and 3/4. This is a partial generalization of a classical 1927 result of Mahler.
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@article{arxiv.1405.5605,
title = {Similarity density of the Thue-Morse word with overlap-free infinite binary words},
author = {Chen Fei Du and Jeffrey Shallit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5605},
year = {2014}
}
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In Proceedings AFL 2014, arXiv:1405.5272