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A graph G(V, E) is word-representable if there exists a word w over V such that distinct letters x and y alternate in w iff $xy \in E$. We introduce p-complete squares and p-complete square-free word-representable graphs. A word is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Biswajit Das , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

We consider avoiding mesosomes -- that is, words of the form $xx'$ with $x'$ a conjugate of $x$ that is different from $x$ -- over a binary alphabet. We give a structure theorem for mesosome-avoiding words, count how many there are,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Robert Cummings , Jeffrey Shallit , Paul Staadecker

This paper classifies binary morphisms that map to ultimately periodic words. In particular, if a morphism h maps an infinite non-ultimately periodic word to an ultimately periodic word then it must be true that h(0) commutes with h(1).

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Brendan Lucier

We describe an algorithm for the exhaustive generation of non-isomorphic graphs with a given number $k \ge 0$ of hamiltonian cycles, which is especially efficient for small $k$. Our main findings, combining applications of this algorithm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Jan Goedgebeur , Barbara Meersman , Carol T. Zamfirescu

Kosaraju in ``Computation of squares in a string'' briefly described a linear-time algorithm for computing the minimal squares starting at each position in a word. Using the same construction of suffix trees, we generalize his result and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Zhi Xu

Given an infinite word over the alphabet $\{0,1,2,3\}$, we define a class of bipartite hereditary graphs $\mathcal{G}^\alpha$, and show that $\mathcal{G}^\alpha$ has unbounded clique-width unless $\alpha$ contains at most finitely many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Robert Brignall , Daniel Cocks

A word $w$ over an alphabet $\Sigma$ is a Lyndon word if there exists an order defined on $\Sigma$ for which $w$ is lexicographically smaller than all of its conjugates (other than itself). We introduce and study \emph{universal Lyndon…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Arturo Carpi , Gabriele Fici , Stepan Holub , Jakub Oprsal , Marinella Sciortino

Research about crossings is typically about minimization. In this paper, we consider \emph{maximizing} the number of crossings over all possible ways to draw a given graph in the plane. Alpert et al. [Electron. J. Combin., 2009] conjectured…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Markus Chimani , Stefan Felsner , Stephen Kobourov , Torsten Ueckerdt , Pavel Valtr , Alexander Wolff

A generic rectangulation is a partition of a rectangle into finitely many interior-disjoint rectangles, such that no four rectangles meet in a point. In this work we present a versatile algorithmic framework for exhaustively generating a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Arturo Merino , Torsten Mütze

A shuffle square is a word consisting of two shuffled copies of the same word. For instance, the Turkish word $\mathtt{\color{red}{ik}\color{blue}{i}\color{red}{li}\color{blue}{kli}}$ (binary in English) is a shuffle square, as it can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jarosław Grytczuk , Bartłomiej Pawlik , Andrzej Ruciński

A finite or infinite word is called a $G$-word for a labelled graph $G$ on the vertex set $A_n = \{0,1,..., n-1\}$ if $w = i_1i_2...i_k \in A_n^*$, where each factor $i_ji_{j+1}$ is an edge of $E$, i.e, $w$ represents a walk in $G$. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-27 Tero Harju

In 1976, Dekking showed that there exists an infinite binary word that contains neither squares yy with y >= 4 nor cubes xxx. We show that `cube' can be replaced by any fractional power > 5/2. We also consider the analogous problem where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey Shallit

For every positive integer $k$ such that $k>1,$ there are an infinity of odd integers $h$ with $\omega(h) =k$ distinct prime divisors such that there do not exist a Circulant Hadamard matrix $H$ of order $n=4h^2.$ Moreover, our main result…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Luis H. Gallardo

Rich words are characterized by containing the maximum possible number of distinct palindromes. Several characteristic properties of rich words have been studied; yet the analysis of repetitions in rich words still involves some interesting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Aseem Raj Baranwal , Jeffrey Shallit

A word $\sigma=\sigma_1...\sigma_n$ over the alphabet $[k]=\{1,2,...,k\}$ is said to be {\em smooth} if there are no two adjacent letters with difference greater than 1. A word $\sigma$ is said to be {\em smooth cyclic} if it is a smooth…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-04 Arnold Knopfmacher , Toufik Mansour , Augustine Munagi , Helmut Prodinger

A \emph{border} of a word $w$ is a word that is both a non-empty proper prefix and suffix of $w$. If $w$ has a border, then it is said to be \emph{bordered}; otherwise, it is said to be \emph{unbordered}. The main results of this paper are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Daniel Gabric

Hypergraphs are structures that can be decomposed or described; in other words they are recursively countable. Here, we get exact and asymptotic enumeration results on hypergraphs by means of exponential generating functions. The number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-06-20 Tsiriniaina Andriamampianina

We present a novel iterative algorithm for approximating the linear least squares solution with low complexity. After a motivation of the algorithm we discuss the algorithm's properties including its complexity, and we present theoretical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Michael Lunglmayr , Christoph Unterrieder , Mario Huemer

With a high probability the Sarlos randomized algorithm of 2006 outputs a nearly optimal least squares solution of a highly overdeterminedlinear system of equations. We propose its simple deterministic variation which computes such a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Qi Luan , Victor Y. Pan

We completely characterize the words that can be avoided in infinite squarefree ternary words.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Narad Rampersad