Balances and abelian complexity of a certain class of infinite ternary words
Turek, Ondřej
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications, Tome 44 (2010), p. 313-337 / Harvested from Numdam
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A word u defined over an alphabet 𝒜 is c-balanced (c ∈ ℕ) if for all pairs of factors v, w of u of the same length and for all letters a ∈ 𝒜, the difference between the number of letters a in v and w is less or equal to c. In this paper we consider a ternary alphabet 𝒜 = {L, S, M} and a class of substitutions φ p defined by φ p (L) = LpS, φ p (S) = M, φ p (M) = Lp-1S where p > 1. We prove that the fixed point of φ p , formally written as φ p ∞ (L), is 3-balanced and that its abelian complexity is bounded above by the value 7, regardless of the value of p. We also show that both these bounds are optimal, i.e. they cannot be improved.

Publié le : 2010-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1051/ita/2010017
Classification:  68R15 
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Turek, Ondřej. Balances and abelian complexity of a certain class of infinite ternary words. RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications, Tome 44 (2010) pp. 313-337. doi : 10.1051/ita/2010017. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/ITA_2010__44_3_313_0/

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