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 and a -recognizable set , i.e. the set of its greedy -representations is recognized by a finite automaton, decide whether or not 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 -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