Existence of words over a binary alphabet free from squares with mismatches
Diskretnaya Matematika, Tome 30 (2018) no. 2, pp. 37-54
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The paper is concerned with the problem of existence of periodic structures in words from formal languages. Squares (that is, fragments of the form $xx$, where $x$ is an arbitrary word) and $\Delta$-squares (that is, fragments of the form $xy$, where a word $x$ differs from a word $y$ by at most $\Delta$ letters) are considered as periodic structures. We show that in a binary alphabet there exist arbitrarily long words free from $\Delta$-squares with length at most $4\Delta+4$. In particular, a method of construction of such words for any $\Delta$ is given.
Keywords:
Thue sequence, square-free words, word combinatorics, mismatches.
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title = {Existence of words over a binary alphabet free from squares with mismatches},
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volume = {30},
number = {2},
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N. V. Kotlyarov. Existence of words over a binary alphabet free from squares with mismatches. Diskretnaya Matematika, Tome 30 (2018) no. 2, pp. 37-54. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/DM_2018_30_2_a3/