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We show that for every $n \geq 1$ and over any finite alphabet, there is a word whose circular factors of length $n$ have a one-to-one correspondence with the set of primitive words. In particular, we prove that such a word can be obtained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Yu Hin Au

Let $\widetilde{\alpha}$ be a length-$L$ cyclic sequence of characters from a size-$K$ alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ such that the number of occurrences of any length-$m$ string on $\mathcal{A}$ as a substring of $\widetilde{\alpha}$ is $\lfloor L…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Abhinav Nellore , Rachel Ward

Classic cycle-joining techniques have found widespread application in creating universal cycles for a diverse range of combinatorial objects, such as shorthand permutations, weak orders, orientable sequences, and various subsets of $k$-ary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-18 J. Sawada , J. Sears , A. Trautrim , A. Williams

The main goal of this work is to establish a bijection between Dyck words and a family of Eulerian digraphs. We do so by providing two algorithms implementing such bijection in both directions. The connection between Dyck words and Eulerian…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-10 Pietro Codara , Ottavio M. D'Antona , Marco Genuzio

A (non-circular) de Bruijn sequence w of order n is a word such that every word of length n appears exactly once in w as a factor. In this paper, we generalize the concept to a multi-shift setting: a multi-shift de Bruijn sequence tau(m,n)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Zhi Xu

A universal word (u-word) for $d$-dimensional permutations of length $n$ is a 2-dimensional word with $d-1$ rows, any size $n$ window of which is order-isomorphic to exactly one permutation of length $n$, and all permutations of length $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Sergey Kitaev , Dun Qiu

We introduce the $k$-bonacci polyominoes, a new family of polyominoes associated with the binary words avoiding $k$ consecutive $1$'s, also called generalized $k$-bonacci words. The polyominoes are very entrancing objects, considered in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Sergey Kirgizov , José Luis Ramírez

Consider the collection of all t-multisets of {1,...,n}. A universal cycle on multisets is a string of numbers, each of which is between 1 and n, such that if these numbers are considered in t-sized windows, every multiset in the collection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias L. Johnson , Joshua Zahl

A universal cycle is a compact listing of a class of combinatorial objects. In this paper, we prove the existence of universal cycles of classes of labeled graphs, including simple graphs, trees, graphs with m edges, graphs with loops,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Greg Brockman , Bill Kay , Emma E. Snively

A binary modified de Bruijn sequence is an infinite and periodic binary sequence derived by removing a zero from the longest run of zeros in a binary de Bruijn sequence. The minimal polynomial of the modified sequence is its unique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Musthofa , Indah Emilia Wijayanti , Diah Junia Eksi Palupi , Martianus Frederic Ezerman

In this article we give two different ways of representations of circular words. Representations with tuples are intended as a compact notation, while representations with trees give a way to easily process all conjugates of a word. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 László Hegedüs , Benedek Nagy

Kitaev, Potapov, and Vajnovszki [On shortening u-cycles and u-words for permutations, Discrete Appl. Math, 2019] described how to shorten universal words for permutations, to length $n!+n-1-i(n-1)$ for any $i \in [(n-2)!]$, by introducing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Rachel Kirsch , Bernard Lidický , Clare Sibley , Elizabeth Sprangel

Binary time series data are very common in many applications, and are typically modelled independently via a Bernoulli process with a single probability of success. However, the probability of a success can be dependent on the outcome…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-12 Louise Kimpton , Peter Challenor , Henry Wynn

We present practical algorithms for generating universal cycles uniformly at random. In particular, we consider universal cycles for shorthand permutations, subsets and multiset permutations, weak orders, and orientable sequences.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Joe Sawada , Daniel Gabrić

We study universal cycles of the set ${\cal P}(n,k)$ of $k$-partitions of the set $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ and prove that the transition digraph associated with ${\cal P}(n,k)$ is Eulerian. But this does not imply that universal cycles (or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Zach Higgins , Elizabeth Kelley , Bertilla Sieben , Anant Godbole

Orientable sequences of order n are infinite periodic sequences with symbols drawn from a finite alphabet of size k with the property that any particular subsequence of length n occurs at most once in a period in either direction. They were…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Chris J Mitchell , Peter R Wild

A Universal Cycle for t-multisets of [n]={1,...,n} is a cyclic sequence of $\binom{n+t-1}{t}$ integers from [n] with the property that each t-multiset of [n] appears exactly once consecutively in the sequence. For such a sequence to exist…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Glenn Hurlbert , Tobias Johnson , Joshua Zahl

Let S be a cyclic n-ary sequence. We say that S is a {\it universal cycle} ((n,k)-Ucycle) for k-subsets of [n] if every such subset appears exactly once contiguously in S, and is a Ucycle packing if every such subset appears at most once.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-23 Dawn Curtis , Taylor Hines , Glenn Hurlbert , Tatiana Moyer

We generalize Axel Thue's familiar definition of overlaps in words, and show that there are no infinite words containing split occurrences of these generalized overlaps. Along the way we prove a useful theorem about repeated disjoint…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Daniel Gabric , Jeffrey Shallit

Pseudo-random arrays and perfect maps are the two-dimensional analogs of M-sequences and de Bruijn sequences, respectively. We modify the definitions to be applied to codes. These codes are also the two-dimensional analogs of certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tuvi Etzion