Recurrent word

In mathematics, a recurrent word or sequence is an infinite word over a finite alphabet in which every factor occurs infinitely often.[1][2][3] An infinite word is recurrent if and only if it is a sesquipower.[4][5]

A uniformly recurrent word is a recurrent word in which for any given factor X in the sequence, there is some length nX (often much longer than the length of X) such that X appears in every block of length nX.[1][6][7] The term minimal sequence[8] or almost periodic sequence(Muchnik, Semenov, Ushakov 2003) is also used.

Examples

  • The easiest way to make a recurrent sequence is to form a periodic sequence, one where the sequence repeats entirely after a given number m of steps. Such a sequence is in then uniformly recurrent and nX can be set to any multiple of m that is larger than twice the length of X. A recurrent sequence that is ultimately periodic is purely periodic.[2]
  • The Thue–Morse sequence is uniformly recurrent without being periodic, nor even eventually periodic (meaning periodic after some nonperiodic initial segment).[9]
  • More generally, all Sturmian words are recurrent.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 Lothaire (2011) p. 30
  2. 1 2 Allouche & Shallit (2003) p.325
  3. ↑ Pytheas Fogg (2002) p.2
  4. ↑ Lothaire (2011) p. 141
  5. ↑ Berstel et al (2009) p.133
  6. ↑ Berthé & Rigo (2010) p.7
  7. ↑ Allouche & Shallit (2003) p.328
  8. ↑ Pytheas Fogg (2002) p.6
  9. ↑ Lothaire (2011) p.31
  10. ↑ Berthé & Rigo (2010) p.177
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  • Berstel, Jean; Lauve, Aaron; Reutenauer, Christophe; Saliola, Franco V. (2009). Combinatorics on words. Christoffel words and repetitions in words. CRM Monograph Series. 27. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4480-9. Zbl 1161.68043.
  • Berthé, Valérie; Rigo, Michel, eds. (2010). Combinatorics, automata, and number theory. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. 135. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51597-9. Zbl 1197.68006.
  • Lothaire, M. (2011). Algebraic combinatorics on words. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications. 90. With preface by Jean Berstel and Dominique Perrin (Reprint of the 2002 hardback ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-18071-9. Zbl 1221.68183.
  • Pytheas Fogg, N. (2002). Berthé, Valérie; Ferenczi, Sébastien; Mauduit, Christian; Siegel, Anne, eds. Substitutions in dynamics, arithmetics and combinatorics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1794. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-44141-7. Zbl 1014.11015.
  • An. Muchnik, A. Semenov, M. Ushakov, Almost periodic sequences, Theoret. Comput. Sci. vol.304 no.1-3 (2003), 1-33.
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