Title
A Characterization of Balanced Episturmian Sequences
Abstract
It is well-known that Sturmian sequences are the non ultimately periodic sequences that are balanced over a 2-letter alphabet. They are also characterized by their complexity: they have exactly (n + 1) distinct factors of length n. A natural generalization of Sturmian sequences is the set of infinite episturmian sequences. These sequences are not necessarily balanced over a k-letter alphabet, nor are they necessarily aperiodic. In this paper, we characterize balanced episturmian sequences, periodic or not, and prove Fraenkel's conjecture for the special case of episturmian sequences. It appears that balanced episturmian sequences are all ultimately periodic and they can be classified in 3 families.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
combinatorics on words,number theory
Field
DocType
Volume
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Aperiodic graph,Conjecture,Periodic graph (geometry),Mathematics,Special case,Alphabet
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1.0
1077-8926
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.72
14
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Geneviève Paquin1243.21
Laurent Vuillon218626.63