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A prefix normal word is a binary word with the property that no substring has more $1$s than the prefix of the same length. By proving that the set of prefix normal words is a bubble language, we can exhaustively list all prefix normal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Péter Burcsi , Gabriele Fici , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Rajeev Raman , Joe Sawada

We present a new recursive generation algorithm for prefix normal words. These are binary strings with the property that no substring has more 1s than the prefix of the same length. The new algorithm uses two operations on binary strings,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ferdinando Cicalese , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Massimiliano Rossi

A prefix normal word is a binary word with the property that no substring has more 1s than the prefix of the same length. This class of words is important in the context of binary jumbled pattern matching. In this paper we present results…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Péter Burcsi , Gabriele Fici , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Frank Ruskey , Joe Sawada

A $1$-prefix normal word is a binary word with the property that no factor has more $1$s than the prefix of the same length; a $0$-prefix normal word is defined analogously. These words arise in the context of indexed binary jumbled pattern…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Péter Burcsi , Gabriele Fici , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Frank Ruskey , Joe Sawada

A prefix normal word is a binary word whose prefixes contain at least as many 1s as any of its factors of the same length. Introduced by Fici and Lipt\'ak in 2011 the notion of prefix normality is so far only defined for words over the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yannik Eikmeier , Pamela Fleischmann , Mitja Kulczynski , Dirk Nowotka

In 2011, Fici and Lipt\'ak introduced prefix normal words. A binary word is prefix normal if it has no factor (substring) that contains more occurrences of the letter 1 than the prefix of the same length. Among the open problems regarding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Duncan Adamson , Moritz Dudey , Pamela Fleischmann , Annika Huch

We present a new class of binary words: the prefix normal words. They are defined by the property that for any given length $k$, no factor of length $k$ has more $a$'s than the prefix of the same length. These words arise in the context of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Gabriele Fici , Zsuzsanna Lipták

Prefix normal words are binary words that have no factor with more $1$s than the prefix of the same length. Finite prefix normal words were introduced in [Fici and Lipt\'ak, DLT 2011]. In this paper, we study infinite prefix normal words…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Ferdinando Cicalese , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Massimiliano Rossi

Prefix normal words are binary words in which each prefix has at least the same number of $\so$s as any factor of the same length. Firstly introduced by Fici and Lipt\'ak in 2011, the problem of determining the index of the prefix…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Pamela Fleischmann , Mitja Kulczynski , Dirk Nowotka

In this paper we propose an algorithm to generate binary words with no more 0's than 1's having a fixed number of 1's and avoiding the pattern $(10)^j1$ for any fixed $j \geq 1$. We will prove that this generation is exhaustive, that is,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Stefano Bilotta , Elisabetta Grazzini , Elisa Pergola , Renzo Pinzani

The observed frequency of the longest proper prefix, the longest proper suffix, and the longest infix of a word $w$ in a given sequence $x$ can be used for classifying $w$ as avoided or overabundant. The definitions used for the expectation…

Prefix parsing asks whether an input prefix can be extended to a complete string generated by a given grammar. In the weighted setting, it also provides prefix probabilities, which are central to context-free language modeling,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Clemente Pasti , Andreas Opedal , Timothy J. O'Donnell , Ryan Cotterell , Tim Vieira

In this paper we study the enumeration and the construction, according to the number of ones, of particular binary words avoiding a fixed pattern. The growth of such words can be described by particular jumping and marked succession rules.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Stefano Bilotta , Elisa Pergola , Renzo Pinzani

We show that the number of prefix normal binary words of length $n$ is $2^{n-\Theta((\log n)^2)}$. We also show that the maximum number of binary words of length $n$ with a given fixed prefix normal form is $2^{n-O(\sqrt{n\log n})}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Paul Balister , Stefanie Gerke

The regular languages with a neutral letter expressible in first-order logic with one alternation are characterized. Specifically, it is shown that if an arbitrary $\Sigma_2$ formula defines a regular language with a neutral letter, then…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Corentin Barloy , Michaël Cadilhac , Charles Paperman , Thomas Zeume

Multiple algorithms are known for efficiently calculating the prefix probability of a string under a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG). Good algorithms for the problem have a runtime cubic in the length of the input string. However,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Franz Nowak , Ryan Cotterell

A closed word (a.k.a. periodic-like word or complete first return) is a word whose longest border does not have internal occurrences, or, equivalently, whose longest repeated prefix is not right special. We investigate the structure of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Golnaz Badkobeh , Gabriele Fici , Zsuzsanna Lipták

Let $w$ be an infinite word on an alphabet $A$. We denote by $(n_i)_{i \geq 1}$ the increasing sequence (assumed to be infinite) of all lengths of palindrome prefixes of $w$. In this text, we give an explicit construction of all words $w$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-13 Stéphane Fischler

We discuss the notion of privileged word, recently introduced by Peltomaki. A word w is privileged if it is of length <=1, or has a privileged border that occurs exactly twice in w. We prove the following results: (1) if w^k is privileged…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Michael Forsyth , Amlesh Jayakumar , Jeffrey Shallit

The prefix palindromic length $p_{\mathbf{u}}(n)$ of an infinite word $\mathbf{u}$ is the minimal number of concatenated palindromes needed to express the prefix of length $n$ of $\mathbf{u}$. This function is surprisingly difficult to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Dora V. Bulgakova , Anna E. Frid , Jérémy Scanvic
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