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We study structure of pure morphic and morphic sequences and prove the following result: the subword complexity of arbitrary morphic sequence is either $\Theta(n^{1+1/k})$ for some $k\in\mathbb N$, or is $O(n \log n)$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Rostislav Devyatov

This paper deals with the size complexity of minimal {\it two-way quantum finite automata} (2qfa's) necessary for operations to perform on all inputs of each fixed length. Such a complexity measure, known as state complexity of operations,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-04 Daowen Qiu

This paper describes the probabilistic behaviour of a random Sturmian word. It performs the probabilistic analysis of the recurrence function which can be viewed as a waiting time to discover all the factors of length $n$ of the Sturmian…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Pablo Rotondo , Brigitte Vallee

We study the properties of the ternary infinite word p = 012102101021012101021012 ... , that is, the fixed point of the map h:0->01, 1->21, 2->0. We determine its factor complexity, critical exponent, and prove that it is 2-balanced. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-07 James Currie , Pascal Ochem , Narad Rampersad , Jeffrey Shallit

We present a new series of examples of binary slowly synchronizing automata with sink state. The reset threshold of the $n$-state automaton in this series is $\frac{n^2}{4}+2n-9$. This improves on the previously known lower bound for the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Dmitry Ananichev

In this paper, we analyze 2CNF formulas from the perspectives of Read-Once resolution (ROR) refutation schemes. We focus on two types of ROR refutations, viz., variable-once refutation and clause-once refutation. In the former, each…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Hans Kleine Büning , Piotr Wojciechowski , K. Subramani

In this paper we present a new termination proof and complexity analysis of unfolding graph rewriting which is a specific kind of infinite graph rewriting expressing the general form of safe recursion. We introduce a termination order over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Naohi Eguchi

Recursive decoding techniques are considered for Reed-Muller (RM) codes of growing length $n$ and fixed order $r.$ An algorithm is designed that has complexity of order $n\log n$ and corrects most error patterns of weight up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Ilya Dumer

The paperfolding sequences form an uncountable class of infinite sequences over the alphabet $\{ -1, 1 \}$ that describe the sequence of folds arising from iterated folding of a piece of paper, followed by unfolding. In this note we observe…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Jeffrey Shallit

Many natural language processing applications use language models to generate text. These models are typically trained to predict the next word in a sequence, given the previous words and some context such as an image. However, at test time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Sumit Chopra , Michael Auli , Wojciech Zaremba

By an analogy to the duality between the recurrence time and the longest match length, we introduce a quantity dual to the maximal repetition length, which we call the repetition time. Extending prior results, we sandwich the repetition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Łukasz Dębowski

Measuring sentence similarity is a classic topic in natural language processing. Light-weighted similarities are still of particular practical significance even when deep learning models have succeeded in many other tasks. Some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Zihao Wang , Yong Zhang , Hao Wu

Shallit and Wang studied deterministic automatic complexity of words. They showed that the automatic Hausdorff dimension $I(\mathbf t)$ of the infinite Thue word satisfies $1/3\le I(\mathbf t)\le 2/3$. We improve that result by showing that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Kayleigh Hyde , Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen

Probabilistic automata are an extension of nondeterministic finite automata in which transitions are annotated with probabilities. Despite its simplicity, this model is very expressive and many of the associated algorithmic questions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Cristian Riveros , James Worrell

The repetition threshold of a class $C$ of infinite $d$-ary sequences is the smallest real number $r$ such that in the class $C$ there exists a sequence that avoids $e$-powers for all $e> r$. This notion was introduced by Dejean in 1972 for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Lubomíra Dvořáková , Edita Pelantová

In this paper, we study the word problem for automaton semigroups and automaton groups from a complexity point of view. As an intermediate concept between automaton semigroups and automaton groups, we introduce automaton-inverse semigroups,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Daniele D'Angeli , Emanuele Rodaro , Jan Philipp Wächter

We consider recognizable trace rewriting systems with level-regular contexts (RTL). A trace language is level-regular if the set of Foata normal forms of its elements is regular. We prove that the rewriting graph of a RTL is word-automatic.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Alexandre Mansard

In this paper, the construction of finite-length binary sequences whose nonlinear complexity is not less than half of the length is investigated. By characterizing the structure of the sequences, an algorithm is proposed to generate all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sicheng Liang , Xiangyong Zeng , Zibi Xiao , Zhimin Sun

For an infinite word $\mathbf{x}$, Bugeaud and Kim introduced a new complexity function $\text{rep}(\mathbf{x})$ which is called the exponent of repetition of $\mathbf{x}$. They showed $1\le \text{rep}(\mathbf{x}) \le \sqrt{10}-\frac{3}{2}$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Deokwon Sim

A problem of reconstructing words from their subwords involves determining the minimum amount of information needed, such as multisets of scattered subwords of a specific length or the frequency of scattered subwords from a given set, in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sergey Luchinin , Svetlana Puzynina , Michaël Rao