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We study the avoidability of long $k$-abelian-squares and $k$-abelian-cubes on binary and ternary alphabets. For $k=1$, these are M\"akel\"a's questions. We show that one cannot avoid abelian-cubes of abelian period at least $2$ in infinite…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Michaël Rao , Matthieu Rosenfeld

This paper classifies binary morphisms that map to ultimately periodic words. In particular, if a morphism h maps an infinite non-ultimately periodic word to an ultimately periodic word then it must be true that h(0) commutes with h(1).

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Brendan Lucier

We derive an explicit formula for the Abelian complexity of infinite words associated with quadratic Parry numbers.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Ľubomíra Balková , Karel Břinda , Ondřej Turek

We begin a systematic study of the relations between subword complexity of infinite words and their power avoidance. Among other things, we show that -- the Thue-Morse word has the minimum possible subword complexity over all overlap-free…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jeffrey Shallit , Arseny M. Shur

An infinite permutation $\alpha$ is a linear ordering of $\mathbb N$. We study properties of infinite permutations analogous to those of infinite words, and show some resemblances and some differences between permutations and words. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Anna Frid , Luca Zamboni

Good words are binary words avoiding factors 11 and 1001, and patterns 0000 and 00010100. We show that good words bear the same relationship to the period-doubling sequence that overlap-free words bear to the Thue-Morse sequence. We prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-28 James D. Currie

In the proposed matrix primes, through which one can readily generate a sequence of primes. The paper also proposes a number of theorems proved by which an infinite number of prime numbers twins

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-09-16 S. N. Baibekov , A. A. Durmagambetov

In this note we present a characterisation of all unary and binary patterns that do not only contain variables, but also reversals of their instances. These types of variables were studied recently in either more general or particular…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Robert Mercaş

In this short paper we shall prove that there exist infinitely many consecutive square-free numbers of the form $[\alpha p]$, $[\alpha p]+1$, where $p$ is prime and $\alpha>0$ is irrational algebraic number. We also establish an asymptotic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-09 S. I. Dimitrov

In a recent paper, one of us posed three open problems concerning squarefree arithmetic progressions in infinite words. In this note we solve these problems and prove some additional results.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-21 James Currie , Tero Harju , Pascal Ochem , Narad Rampersad

In the present paper we show that there exist infinitely many consecutive square-free numbers of the form $[\alpha n]$, $[\alpha n]+1$, where $\alpha>1$ is irrational number with bounded partial quotient or irrational algebraic number.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-26 S. I. Dimitrov

In this paper, we consider infinite words that arise as fixed points of primitive substitutions on a finite alphabet and finite colorings of their factors. Any such infinite word exhibits a "hierarchal structure" that will allow us to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-31 A. Bernardino , M. Silva , R. Pacheco

If an infinite non-periodic word is uniformly recurrent or is of bounded repetition, then the limit of its periodicity complexity is infinity. Moreover, there are uniformly recurrent words with the periodicity complexity arbitrarily high at…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Štěpán Holub

Non-overlapping codes have been studied for almost 60 years. In such a code, no proper, non-empty prefix of any codeword is a suffix of any codeword. In this paper, we study codes in which overlaps of certain specified sizes are forbidden.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Simon R. Blackburn , Navid Nasr Esfahani , Donald L. Kreher , Douglas R. Stinson

We investigate the least number of palindromic factors in an infinite word. We first consider general alphabets, and give answers to this problem for periodic and non-periodic words, closed or not under reversal of factors. We then…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Gabriele Fici , Luca Q. Zamboni

We prove that there are infinitely many integers, which can represent as sum of a square-free integer and a prime $p$ with $||\alpha p+\beta||<p^{-1/10}$, where $\alpha$ is irrational.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-11 T. L. Todorova

We enumerate all ternary length-l square-free words, which are words avoiding squares of words up to length l, for l<=24. We analyse the singular behaviour of the corresponding generating functions. This leads to new upper entropy bounds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christoph Richard , Uwe Grimm

Fici and Saarela ([2]) conjectured that a binary word of length n contains at least $\lfloor n/4 \rfloor$ abelian squares. We slightly extend this conjecture and show that it holds in some special cases. In all other cases we have the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Szilard Zsolt Fazekas , Adam Mammoliti , Robert Mercas , Jamie Simpson

Over an alphabet of size 3 we construct an infinite balanced word with critical exponent 2+sqrt(2)/2. Over an alphabet of size 4 we construct an infinite balanced word with critical exponent (5+sqrt(5))/4. Over larger alphabets, we give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Narad Rampersad , Jeffrey Shallit , Élise Vandomme

A word of length $n$ is rich if it contains $n$ nonempty palindromic factors. An infinite word is rich if all of its finite factors are rich. Baranwal and Shallit produced an infinite binary rich word with critical exponent $2+\sqrt{2}/2$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 James D. Currie , Lucas Mol , Narad Rampersad