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We prove that for any sequence of binary alphabets $\mathcal{A}_1,\mathcal{A}_2,\dots$, there exists a cube-free word $c_1c_2\dots$ so that $c_1\in\mathcal{A}_1,c_2\in\mathcal{A}_2,\dots$. In particular, for every $n$, there are at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Vuong Bui , Matthieu Rosenfeld

This work is a continuation of some recent articles presenting enumerative results for Catalan words avoiding one or a pair of consecutive or classical patterns of length $3$. More precisely, we provide systematically the bivariate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Jean-Luc Baril , José Luis Ramírez

The ternary Goldbach conjecture, or three-primes problem, states that every odd number $n$ greater than $5$ can be written as the sum of three primes. The conjecture, posed in 1742, remained unsolved until now, in spite of great progress in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Harald Andrés Helfgott

We study the relation between the palindromic and factor complexity of infinite words. We show that for uniformly recurrent words one has P(n)+P(n+1) \leq \Delta C(n) + 2, for all n \in N. For a large class of words it is a better estimate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Baláži , Zuzana Masáková , Edita Pelantová

In this paper, we investigate the combinatorial and density properties of infinite words generated by Fibonacci-type morphisms, focusing on their subword structure, palindrome density, and extremal statistical behaviors. Using the morphism…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

We give a partial answer to a problem of Harju by constructing an infinite ternary squarefree word $w$ with the property that for every $k \geq 3312$ there is an interior length-$k$ factor of $w$ that can be deleted while still preserving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Marko Milosevic , Narad Rampersad

We study various aspects of Dyck words appearing in binary sequences, where $0$ is treated as a left parenthesis and $1$ as a right parenthesis. We show that binary words that are $7/3$-power-free have bounded nesting level, but this no…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Lucas Mol , Narad Rampersad , Jeffrey Shallit

Two finite words $u$ and $v$ are called abelian equivalent if each letter occurs equally many times in both $u$ and $v$. The abelian closure $\mathcal{A}(\mathbf{x})$ of an infinite word $\mathbf{x}$ is the set of infinite words…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Juhani Karhumäki , Svetlana Puzynina , Markus A. Whiteland

We study the asymptotics and fine-scale behavior of quantitative combinatorial measures of infinite words and related dynamical and algebraic structures. We construct infinite recurrent words $w$ whose complexity functions $p_w(n)$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Be'eri Greenfeld , Carlos Gustavo Moreira , Efim Zelmanov

In this document we achieve exact and asymptotic enumeration of words, compositions over a finite group, and/or integer compositions characterized by local restrictions and, separately, subsequence pattern avoidance. We also count…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-19 Andrew MacFie

We describe a new non-constructive technique to show that squares are avoidable by an infinite word even if we force some letters from the alphabet to appear at certain occurrences. We show that as long as forced positions are at distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Matthieu Rosenfeld

Kaplansky conjectured that if two positive-definite real ternary quadratic forms have perfectly identical representations over $\mathbb{Z}$, they are constant multiples of regular forms, or is included in either of two families parametrized…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Ryoko Oishi-Tomiyasu

Enumerating the number of times one word occurs in another is a much-studied combinatorial subject. By utilizing a method that we call ``lexicographic extreme referencing'', we provide a formula for computing occurrences of one binary word…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Roger Tian

For $\eta\in S_3$, let $S_n^{\text{av}(\eta)}$ denote the set of permutations in $S_n$ that avoid the pattern $\eta$, and let $E_n^{\text{av}(\eta)}$ denote the expectation with respect to the uniform probability measure on…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Ross G. Pinsky

A syntax tree is a planar rooted tree where internal nodes are labeled on a graded set of generators. There is a natural notion of occurrence of contiguous pattern in such trees. We describe a way, given a set of generators $\mathfrak{G}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Samuele Giraudo

A celebrated theorem by Coven and Hedlund (1973) states that Sturmian words are characterized by their abelian complexity: they are precisely the infinite words with rationally independent letter frequencies and constant abelian complexity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Mélodie Andrieu , Léo Vivion

We investigate the avoidability of unary patterns of size of four with morphic permutations. More precisely, we show that, for the positive integers $i,j,k$, the sizes of the alphabets over which a pattern $x \pi ^ {i} (x) \pi^{j}(x)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Kamellia Reshadi

We identify the structure of the lexicographically least word avoiding 5/4-powers on the alphabet of nonnegative integers. Specifically, we show that this word has the form $p \tau(\varphi(z) \varphi^2(z) \cdots)$ where $p, z$ are finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Eric Rowland , Manon Stipulanti

We discuss a new notion of pattern avoidance motivated by the operad theory: pattern avoidance in planar labelled trees. It is a generalisation of various types of consecutive pattern avoidance studied before: consecutive patterns in words,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Vladimir Dotsenko

The theory of ternary semigroups, groups and algebras is reformulated in the abstract arrow language. Then using the reversing arrow ansatz we define ternary comultiplication, bialgebras and Hopf algebras and investigate their properties.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Borowiec , Wieslaw A. Dudek , Steven Duplij