How many square occurrences must a binary sequence contain?
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 10 (2003)
Every binary word with at least four letters contains a square. A. Fraenkel and J. Simpson showed that three distinct squares are necessary and sufficient to construct an infinite binary word. We study the following complementary question: how many square occurrences must a binary word contain? We show that this quantity is, in the limit, a constant fraction of the word length, and prove that this constant is $0.55080...$.
@article{10_37236_1705,
author = {Gregory Kucherov and Pascal Ochem and Micha\"el Rao},
title = {How many square occurrences must a binary sequence contain?},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2003},
volume = {10},
doi = {10.37236/1705},
zbl = {1011.05007},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/1705/}
}
Gregory Kucherov; Pascal Ochem; Michaël Rao. How many square occurrences must a binary sequence contain?. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 10 (2003). doi: 10.37236/1705
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