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Words Avoiding Reversed Factors, Revisited

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2019-12-10 v2 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

In 2005, Rampersad and the second author proved a number of theorems about infinite words x with the property that if w is any sufficiently long finite factor of x, then its reversal w^R is not a factor of x. In this note we revisit these results, reproving them in more generality, using machine computations only. Two different techniques are presented.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1911.11704,
  title  = {Words Avoiding Reversed Factors, Revisited},
  author = {Lukas Fleischer and Jeffrey Shallit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11704},
  year   = {2019}
}
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