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Counting Abelian Squares

Combinatorics 2008-08-01 v1

Abstract

An abelian square is a string of length 2n where the last n symbols form a permutation of the first n symbols. In this note we count the number of abelian squares and give an asymptotic estimate of this quantity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0807.5028,
  title  = {Counting Abelian Squares},
  author = {L. B. Richmond and J. Shallit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.5028},
  year   = {2008}
}

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