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Avoiding conjugacy classes on the 5-letter alphabet

Combinatorics 2018-11-21 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We construct an infinite word ww over the 55-letter alphabet such that for every factor ff of ww of length at least two, there exists a cyclic permutation of ff that is not a factor of ww. In other words, ww does not contain a non-trivial conjugacy class. This proves the conjecture in Gamard et al. [TCS 2018]

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@article{arxiv.1811.08231,
  title  = {Avoiding conjugacy classes on the 5-letter alphabet},
  author = {Golnaz Badkobeh and Pascal Ochem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.08231},
  year   = {2018}
}
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