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Some properties of $k$-bonacci words on infinite alphabet

Combinatorics 2019-12-02 v1

Abstract

The Fibonacci word WW on an infinite alphabet was introduced in [Zhang et al., Electronic J. Combinatorics 2017 24(2), 2-52] as a fixed point of the morphism 2i(2i)(2i+1)2i\rightarrow (2i)(2i+1), (2i+1)(2i+2)(2i+1) \rightarrow (2i+2), i0i\geq 0. Here, for any integer k>2k>2, we define the infinite kk-bonacci word W(k)W^{(k)} on the infinite alphabet as the fixed point of the morphism φk\varphi_k on the alphabet N\mathbb{N} defined for any i0i\geq 0 and any 0jk10\leq j\leq k-1, as \begin{equation*} \varphi_k(ki+j) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (ki)(ki+j+1) & \text{if } j = 0,\cdots ,k-2,\\ (ki+j+1)& \text{otherwise}. \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} We consider the sequence of finite words (Wn(k))n0(W^{(k)}_n)_{n\geq 0}, where Wn(k)W^{(k)}_n is the prefix of W(k)W^{(k)} whose length is the (n+k)(n+k)-th kk-bonacci number. We then provide a recursive formula for the number of palindromes occur in different positions of Wn(k)W^{(k)}_n. Finally, we obtain the structure of all palindromes occurring in W(k)W^{(k)} and based on this, we compute the palindrome complexity of W(k)W^{(k)}, for any k>2k>2.

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@article{arxiv.1911.12416,
  title  = {Some properties of $k$-bonacci words on infinite alphabet},
  author = {Narges Ghareghani and Pouyeh Sharifani and Morteza Mohammad-Noori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.12416},
  year   = {2019}
}