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Palindromes in infinite ternary words
We study infinite words u over an alphabet A satisfying the property
P : P(n)+ P(n+1) = 1+ #A for any n in N, where P(n) denotes the number of
palindromic factors of length n occurring in the language of u. We study also
infinite words satisfying a stronger property PE: every palindrome of u has
exactly one palindromic extension in u. For binary words, the properties P and
PE coincide and these properties characterize Sturmian words, i.e., words with
the complexity C(n)=n+1 for any n in N. In this paper, we focus on ternary
infinite words with the language closed under reversal. For such words u, we
prove that if C(n)=2n+1 for any n in N, then u satisfies the property P and
moreover u is rich in palindromes. Also a sufficient condition for the property
PE is given. We construct a word demonstrating that P on a ternary alphabet
does not imply PE.Comment: 12 page
Palindromic complexity of codings of rotations
International audienceWe study the palindromic complexity of infinite words obtained by coding rotations on partitions of the unit circle by inspecting the return words. The main result is that every coding of rotations on two intervals is full, that is, it realizes the maximal palindromic complexity. As a byproduct, a slight improvement about return words in codings of rotations is obtained: every factor of a coding of rotations on two intervals has at most 4 complete return words, where the bound is realized only for a finite number of factors. We also provide a combinatorial proof for the special case of complementary-symmetric Rote sequences by considering both palindromes and antipalindromes occurring in it
Languages invariant under more symmetries: overlapping factors versus palindromic richness
Factor complexity and palindromic complexity of
infinite words with language closed under reversal are known to be related by
the inequality for any \,. Word for which
the equality is attained for any is usually called rich in palindromes. In
this article we study words whose languages are invariant under a finite group
of symmetries. For such words we prove a stronger version of the above
inequality. We introduce notion of -palindromic richness and give several
examples of -rich words, including the Thue-Morse sequence as well.Comment: 22 pages, 1 figur
On Theta-palindromic Richness
In this paper we study generalization of the reversal mapping realized by an
arbitrary involutory antimorphism . It generalizes the notion of a
palindrome into a -palindrome -- a word invariant under . For
languages closed under we give the relation between
-palindromic complexity and factor complexity. We generalize the notion
of richness to -richness and we prove analogous characterizations of
words that are -rich, especially in the case of set of factors
invariant under . A criterion for -richness of
-episturmian words is given together with other examples of
-rich words.Comment: 14 page
Factor versus palindromic complexity of uniformly recurrent infinite words
We study the relation between the palindromic and factor complexity of
infinite words. We show that for uniformly recurrent words one has P(n)+P(n+1)
\leq \Delta C(n) + 2, for all n \in N. For a large class of words it is a
better estimate of the palindromic complexity in terms of the factor complexity
then the one presented by Allouche et al. We provide several examples of
infinite words for which our estimate reaches its upper bound. In particular,
we derive an explicit prescription for the palindromic complexity of infinite
words coding r-interval exchange transformations. If the permutation \pi
connected with the transformation is given by \pi(k)=r+1-k for all k, then
there is exactly one palindrome of every even length, and exactly r palindromes
of every odd length.Comment: 16 pages, submitted to Theoretical Computer Scienc
Rich, Sturmian, and trapezoidal words
In this paper we explore various interconnections between rich words,
Sturmian words, and trapezoidal words. Rich words, first introduced in
arXiv:0801.1656 by the second and third authors together with J. Justin and S.
Widmer, constitute a new class of finite and infinite words characterized by
having the maximal number of palindromic factors. Every finite Sturmian word is
rich, but not conversely. Trapezoidal words were first introduced by the first
author in studying the behavior of the subword complexity of finite Sturmian
words. Unfortunately this property does not characterize finite Sturmian words.
In this note we show that the only trapezoidal palindromes are Sturmian. More
generally we show that Sturmian palindromes can be characterized either in
terms of their subword complexity (the trapezoidal property) or in terms of
their palindromic complexity. We also obtain a similar characterization of rich
palindromes in terms of a relation between palindromic complexity and subword
complexity.Comment: 7 page
Generalized Thue-Morse words and palindromic richness
We prove that the generalized Thue-Morse word defined for
and as , where denotes the sum of digits in the base-
representation of the integer , has its language closed under all elements
of a group isomorphic to the dihedral group of order consisting of
morphisms and antimorphisms. Considering simultaneously antimorphisms , we show that is saturated by -palindromes
up to the highest possible level. Using the terminology generalizing the notion
of palindromic richness for more antimorphisms recently introduced by the
author and E. Pelantov\'a, we show that is -rich. We
also calculate the factor complexity of .Comment: 11 page
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