Relative position in binary substitutions

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Autori principali: Coons, Michael, Ramsey, Christopher, Strungaru, Nicolae
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author Coons, Michael
Ramsey, Christopher
Strungaru, Nicolae
author_facet Coons, Michael
Ramsey, Christopher
Strungaru, Nicolae
contents Given an infinite word ${\bf w}$ on a finite alphabet, an immediate question arises:~can we understand the frequency of letters in ${\bf w}$\,? For words that are the fixed points of substitutions, the answer to this question is often `yes' -- the details and methods of these answers have been well-documented. In this paper, toward a better-understanding of the fixed points of binary substitutions, we delve deeper by investigating, in fine detail, the position of letters by defining various position functions and proving results about their behavior. Our analysis reveals new information about the Fibonacci substitution and the extended Pisa family of substitutions, as well as a new characterization of the Thue--Morse sequence.
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spellingShingle Relative position in binary substitutions
Coons, Michael
Ramsey, Christopher
Strungaru, Nicolae
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05A05, 68R15, 11B05
Given an infinite word ${\bf w}$ on a finite alphabet, an immediate question arises:~can we understand the frequency of letters in ${\bf w}$\,? For words that are the fixed points of substitutions, the answer to this question is often `yes' -- the details and methods of these answers have been well-documented. In this paper, toward a better-understanding of the fixed points of binary substitutions, we delve deeper by investigating, in fine detail, the position of letters by defining various position functions and proving results about their behavior. Our analysis reveals new information about the Fibonacci substitution and the extended Pisa family of substitutions, as well as a new characterization of the Thue--Morse sequence.
title Relative position in binary substitutions
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05A05, 68R15, 11B05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12173