String attractors and bi-infinite words

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Auteurs principaux: Béaur, Pierre, Gheeraert, France, de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin
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author Béaur, Pierre
Gheeraert, France
de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin
author_facet Béaur, Pierre
Gheeraert, France
de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin
contents String attractors are a combinatorial tool coming from the field of data compression. It is a set of positions within a word which intersects an occurrence of every factor. While one-sided infinite words admitting a finite string attractor are eventually periodic, the situation is different for two-sided infinite words. In this paper, we characterise the bi-infinite words admitting a finite string attractor as the characteristic Sturmian words and their morphic images. For words that do not admit finite string attractors, we study the structure and properties of their infinite string attractors.
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spellingShingle String attractors and bi-infinite words
Béaur, Pierre
Gheeraert, France
de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
68R15
String attractors are a combinatorial tool coming from the field of data compression. It is a set of positions within a word which intersects an occurrence of every factor. While one-sided infinite words admitting a finite string attractor are eventually periodic, the situation is different for two-sided infinite words. In this paper, we characterise the bi-infinite words admitting a finite string attractor as the characteristic Sturmian words and their morphic images. For words that do not admit finite string attractors, we study the structure and properties of their infinite string attractors.
title String attractors and bi-infinite words
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
68R15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13449