Lengths of irreducible and delicate words
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 29 (2022) no. 3
We study words that barely avoid repetitions, for several senses of "barely". A squarefree (respectively, overlap-free, cubefree) word is irreducible if removing any one of its interior letters creates a square (respectively, overlap, cube). A squarefree (respectively, overlap-free, cubefree) word is delicate if changing any one of its letters creates a square (respectively, overlap, cube). We classify the lengths of irreducible and delicate squarefree, overlap-free, and cubefree words over binary and ternary alphabets.
DOI :
10.37236/10669
Classification :
68R15
Mots-clés : repetitions, irreducible words, delicate words, extremal words, pattern avoidance
Mots-clés : repetitions, irreducible words, delicate words, extremal words, pattern avoidance
Affiliations des auteurs :
Benjamin Przybocki  1
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Benjamin Przybocki. Lengths of irreducible and delicate words. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 29 (2022) no. 3. doi: 10.37236/10669
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