Title
The sequence of return words of the Fibonacci sequence
Abstract
Let ω be a factor of the Fibonacci sequence F ∞ = x 1 x 2 ¿ , then it occurs in the sequence infinitely many times. Let ω p be the p-th occurrence of ω and r p ( ω ) be the p-th return word over ω. In this paper, we study the structure of the sequence of return words { r p ( ω ) } p ¿ 1 . We first introduce the singular kernel word s k ( ω ) for any factor ω of F ∞ and give a decomposition of ω with respect to s k ( ω ) . Using the singular kernel and the decomposition, we prove that the sequence of return words over the alphabet { r 1 ( ω ) , r 2 ( ω ) } is still a Fibonacci sequence. We also determine the expressions of return words completely for each factor. Finally we introduce the spectrum for studying some combinatorial properties, such as power, overlap and separate of factors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.tcs.2015.05.048
Theoretical Computer Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Return words,Fibonacci sequence,Singular kernel,Singular decomposition,Spectrum
Journal
593
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
C
0304-3975
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuke Huang120.75
Zhi-ying Wen2659.91