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Thue-Morse-Sturmian words and critical bases for ternary alphabets

Dynamical Systems 2019-02-20 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

The set of unique β\beta-expansions over the alphabet {0,1}\{0,1\} is trivial for β\beta below the golden ratio and uncountable above the Komornik-Loreti constant. Generalisations of these thresholds for three-letter alphabets were studied by Komornik, Lai and Pedicini (2011, 2017). We use S-adic words including the Thue-Morse word (which defines the Komornik-Loreti constant) and Sturmian words (which characterise generalised golden ratios) to determine the value of a certain generalisation of the Komornik-Loreti constant to three-letter alphabets.

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@article{arxiv.1902.07078,
  title  = {Thue-Morse-Sturmian words and critical bases for ternary alphabets},
  author = {Wolfgang Steiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.07078},
  year   = {2019}
}