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Characterizations of families of morphisms and words via binomial complexities
Rigo, Michel; Stipulanti, Manon; Whiteland, Markus
2024In European Journal of Combinatorics
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Keywords :
Factor complexity; Abelian complexity; Binomial complexity; powers of the Thue– Morse morphism; Sturmian words; Combinatorics on words
Abstract :
[en] Two words are k-binomially equivalent if each subword of length at most k occurs the same number of times in both words. The k-binomial complexity of an infinite word is a counting function that maps n to the number of k-binomial equivalence classes represented by its factors of length n. Cassaigne et al. [Int. J. Found. Comput. S., 22(4) (2011)] characterized a family of morphisms, which we call Parikh-collinear, as those morphisms that map all words to words with bounded 1-binomial complexity. Firstly, we extend this characterization: they map words with bounded k-binomial complexity to words with bounded (k + 1)-binomial complexity. As a consequence, fixed points of Parikh-collinear morphisms are shown to have bounded k- binomial complexity for all k. Secondly, we give a new characterization of Sturmian words with respect to their k-binomial complexity. Then we characterize recurrent words having, for some k, the same j-binomial complexity as the Thue–Morse word for all j ≤ k. Finally, inspired by questions raised by Lejeune, we study the relationships between the k- and (k + 1)-binomial complexities of infinite words; as well as the link with the usual factor complexity.
Disciplines :
Mathematics
Author, co-author :
Rigo, Michel  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de mathématique > Mathématiques discrètes
Stipulanti, Manon  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de mathématique > Mathématiques discrètes
Whiteland, Markus ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Mathematics
Language :
English
Title :
Characterizations of families of morphisms and words via binomial complexities
Publication date :
2024
Journal title :
European Journal of Combinatorics
ISSN :
0195-6698
eISSN :
1095-9971
Publisher :
Elsevier, Atlanta, Georgia
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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