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We characterize the clustering of a word under the Burrows-Wheeler transform in terms of the resolution of a bounded number of bispecial factors belonging to the language generated by all its powers. We use this criterion to compute, in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Sébastien Ferenczi , Luca Q. Zamboni

Dictionaries are inherently circular in nature. A given word is linked to a set of alternative words (the definition) which in turn point to further descendants. Iterating through definitions in this way, one typically finds that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-03-14 David Levary , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Elisha Moses , Tsvi Tlusty

We develop first steps in the study of factorizations of elements in ultraproducts of commutative cancellative monoids into irreducible elements. A complete characterization of the (multi-)sets of lengths in such objects is given. As…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Daniel Windisch

A morphic word is obtained by iterating a morphism to generate an infinite word, and then applying a coding. We characterize morphic words with polynomial growth in terms of a new type of infinite word called a $\textit{zigzag word}$. A…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Tim Smith

In this note, we establish the periodicity of chains of affine standard Lyndon words in all types and determine tight bounds on that periodicity, greatly generalizing the $A$-type results of arXiv:2305.16299. Our approach crucially utilizes…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Corbet Elkins , Alexander Tsymbaliuk

The theorem of factorisation forests shows the existence of nested factorisations -- a la Ramsey -- for finite words. This theorem has important applications in semigroup theory, and beyond. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Colcombet

This work lists and describes the main recent strategies for building fixed-length, dense and distributed representations for words, based on the distributional hypothesis. These representations are now commonly called word embeddings and,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Felipe Almeida , Geraldo Xexéo

We revisit the question of classification of balanced circular words and focus on the case of a ternary alphabet. We propose a $3$-dimensional generalisation of the discrete approximation representation of Christoffel words. By considering…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-03 D. V. Bulgakova , N. Buzhinsky , Y. O. Goncharov

An algebra is finitely related (or has finite degree) if its term functions are determined by some finite set of finitary relations. Nilpotent monoids built from words, via Rees quotients of free monoids, have been used to exhibit many…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Daniel Glasson

Given a totally finite ordered alphabet $ A $, endowing the set of words over $ A $ with the alternating lexicographic order, we define a new class of Lyndon words. We study the fundamental properties of the associated symbolic dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Florent Nguema Ndong

A palindrome is a word that reads the same left-to-right as right-to-left. We show that every simple group has a finite generating set $X$, such that every element of it can be written as a palindrome in the letters of $X$. Moreover, every…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Elisabeth Fink , Andreas Thom

We point out that a sequence of natural numbers is the dimension sequence of a subproduct system if and only if it is the cardinality sequence of a word system (or factorial language). Determining such sequences is, therefore, reduced to a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Malte Gerhold , Michael Skeide

We derive a priori bounds on the size of the structure constants of the free Lie algebra over a set of indeterminates, relative to its Hall bases. We investigate their asymptotic growth, especially as a function of the length of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Karine Beauchard , Jérémy Le Borgne , Frédéric Marbach

A composition of a nonnegative integer (n) is a sequence of positive integers whose sum is (n). A composition is palindromic if it is unchanged when its terms are read in reverse order. We provide a generating function for the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Kitaev , Tyrrell B. McAllister , T. Kyle Petersen

Given a finite group with a generating subset there is a well-established notion of length for a group element given in terms of its minimal length expression as a product of elements from the generating set. Recently, certain quantities…

Dictionary definitions are historically the arbitrator of what words mean, but this primacy has come under threat by recent progress in NLP, including word embeddings and generative models like ChatGPT. We present an exploratory study of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Bach Pham , JuiHsuan Wong , Samuel Kim , Yunting Yin , Steven Skiena

Oftentimes the elements of a ring or semigroup $H$ can be written as finite products of irreducible elements, say $a=u_1 \cdot \ldots \cdot u_k = v_1 \cdot \ldots \cdot v_{\ell}$, where the number of irreducible factors is distinct. The set…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Alfred Geroldinger

Simon's factorization theorem is a celebrated tool in algebraic automata theory, providing bounded-depth decompositions of words with respect to morphisms into finite semigroups. We develop an analogue of Simon's theorem for \emph{forests}…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shaull Almagor , Michaël Cadilhac , Asaf Shoham

We investigate questions related to the presence of primitive words and Lyndon words in automatic and linearly recurrent sequences. We show that the Lyndon factorization of a k-automatic sequence is itself k-automatic. We also show that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Daniel Goc , Kalle Saari , Jeffrey Shallit

The left-corner transform removes left-recursion from (probabilistic) context-free grammars and unification grammars, permitting simple top-down parsing techniques to be used. Unfortunately the grammars produced by the standard left-corner…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark Johnson , Brian Roark