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dc.contributor.author Blanchet-Sadri, F.
dc.contributor.author Currie, James D.
dc.contributor.author Rampersad, Narad
dc.contributor.author 福克斯,内森
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-16T14:17:22Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-16T14:17:22Z
dc.date.issued 2014-02-20
dc.identifier.citation F. Blanchet-Sadri, J. Currie, N. Fox, and N. Rampersad. “Abelian complexity of fixed point of morphism 0 ↦ 012, 1 ↦ 02, 2 ↦ 1.” Integers 14 (2014): A11. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1867-0652
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10680/1408
dc.description.abstract We study the combinatorics of vtm, a variant of the Thue-Morse word generated by the non-uniform morphism 0 ↦ 012, 1 ↦ 02, 2 ↦ 1 starting with 0. This infinite ternary sequence appears a lot in the literature and finds applications in several fields such as combinatorics on words; for example, in pattern avoidance it is often used to construct infinite words avoiding given patterns. It has been shown that the factor complexity of vtm, i.e., the number of factors of length n, is Θ(n); in fact, it is bounded by ¹⁰⁄₃n for all n, and it reaches that bound precisely when n can be written as 3 times a power of 2. In this paper, we show that the abelian complexity of vtm, i.e., the number of Parikh vectors of length n, is O(log n) with constant approaching ¾ (assuming base 2 logarithm), and it is Ω(1) with constant 3 (and these are the best possible bounds). We also prove some results regarding factor indices in vtm. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship "F. Blanchet-Sadri and Nathan Fox’s research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS–1060775." "James D. Currie and Narad Rampersad’s research was supported by NSERC Discovery grants." en_US
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dc.publisher Integers en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title Abelian complexity of fixed point of morphism 0 ↦ 012, 1 ↦ 02, 2 ↦ 1 en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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