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The Repetition Threshold for Rote Sequences

Combinatorics 2024-07-02 v3 Discrete Mathematics Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We consider Rote words, which are infinite binary words with factor complexity 2n2n. We prove that the repetition threshold for this class is 5/25/2. Our technique is purely computational, using the Walnut theorem prover and a new technique for generating automata from morphisms due to the first author and his co-authors.

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@article{arxiv.2406.17867,
  title  = {The Repetition Threshold for Rote Sequences},
  author = {Nicolas Ollinger and Jeffrey Shallit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17867},
  year   = {2024}
}

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The attached html and ipynb files illustrate the ideas and give the Walnut code

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