Title
A multidimensional critical factorization theorem
Abstract
The Critical Factorization Theorem is one of the principal results in combinatorics on words. It relates local periodicities of a word to its global periodicity. In this paper we give a multidimensional extension of it. More precisely, we give a new proof of the Critical Factorization Theorem, but in a weak form, where the weakness is due to the fact that we loose the tightness of the local repetition order. In exchange, we gain the possibility of extending our proof to the multidimensional case. Indeed, this new proof makes use of the Theorem of Fine and Wilf, that has several classical generalizations to the multidimensional case.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.tcs.2005.08.012
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Combinatorics on words,local periodicity,global periodicity,new proof,multidimensional critical factorization theorem,classical generalization,principal result,multidimensional extension,Multidimensional words,multidimensional case,weak form,Critical Factorization Theorem,Periodicity,local repetition order
Journal
346
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
Theoretical Computer Science
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
16
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chiara Epifanio1364.33
Filippo Mignosi256999.71