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Transcendence for Pisot Morphic Words over an Algebraic Base

Number Theory 2025-05-16 v2 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

It is known that for a uniform morphic sequence u=unn=0\boldsymbol u = \langle u_n\rangle_{n=0}^\infty and an algebraic number β\beta such that β>1|\beta|>1, the number [ ⁣[u] ⁣]β:=n=0unβn[\![\boldsymbol{u} ]\!]_\beta:=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{u_n}{\beta^n} either lies in Q(β)\mathbb Q(\beta) or is transcendental. In this paper we show a similar rational-transcendental dichotomy for sequences defined by irreducible Pisot morphisms. Subject to the Pisot conjecture (an irreducible Pisot morphism has pure discrete spectrum), we generalise the latter result to arbitrary finite alphabets. In certain cases we are able to show transcendence of [ ⁣[u] ⁣]β[\![\boldsymbol{u}]\!]_{\beta} outright. In particular, for k2k\geq 2, if u\boldsymbol u is the kk-bonacci word then [ ⁣[u] ⁣]β[\![\boldsymbol{u}]\!]_{\beta} is transcendental.

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@article{arxiv.2405.05279,
  title  = {Transcendence for Pisot Morphic Words over an Algebraic Base},
  author = {Pavol Kebis and Florian Luca and Joel Ouaknine and Andrew Scoones and James Worrell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05279},
  year   = {2025}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2308.13657

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