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Ultimate periodicity problem for linear numeration systems

Discrete Mathematics 2023-09-04 v2 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

We address the following decision problem. Given a numeration system UU and a UU-recognizable set XNX\subseteq\mathbb{N}, i.e. the set of its greedy UU-representations is recognized by a finite automaton, decide whether or not XX is ultimately periodic. We prove that this problem is decidable for a large class of numeration systems built on linearly recurrent sequences. Based on arithmetical considerations about the recurrence equation and on pp-adic methods, the DFA given as input provides a bound on the admissible periods to test.

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@article{arxiv.2007.08147,
  title  = {Ultimate periodicity problem for linear numeration systems},
  author = {E. Charlier and A. Massuir and M. Rigo and E. Rowland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08147},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

39 pages, 2 figures. This is an improved version of the original submission. It clarifies some arguments taking into account several comments from reviews

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