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Binary patterns in binary cube-free words: avoidability and growth

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posted on 2017-03-31, 11:59 authored by Robert MercasRobert Mercas, Pascal Ochem, Alexey V. Samsonov, Arseny M. Shur
The avoidability of binary patterns by binary cube-free words is investigated and the exact bound between unavoidable and avoidable patterns is found. All avoidable patterns are shown to be D0L-avoidable. For avoidable patterns, the growth rates of the avoiding languages are studied. All such languages, except for the overlap-free language, are proved to have exponential growth. The exact growth rates of languages avoiding minimal avoidable patterns are approximated through computer-assisted upper bounds. Finally, a new example of a pattern-avoiding language of polynomial growth is given.

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Computer Science

Published in

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

Volume

48

Issue

4

Pages

369 - 389

Citation

MERCAS, R. ... et al, 2014. Binary patterns in binary cube-free words: avoidability and growth. RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications, 48 (4), pp.369-389

Publisher

EDP Sciences

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

The original publication is available at www.rairo-ita.org.

ISSN

0988-3754

eISSN

1290-385X

Language

  • en