| Issue |
RAIRO-Theor. Inf. Appl.
Volume 40, Number 3, July-September 2006
Word Avoidability Complexity And Morphisms (WACAM)
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| Page(s) | 511 - 518 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ita:2006031 | |
| Published online | 18 October 2006 | |
A little more about morphic Sturmian words
Institut Gaspard Monge,
Cité Descartes, 5, boulevard Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne,
77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France; fagnot@univ-mlv.fr
Received:
15
April
2005
Accepted:
19
September
2005
Among Sturmian words, some of them are morphic, i.e. fixed point of a non-identical morphism on words. Berstel and Séébold (1993) have shown that if a characteristic Sturmian word is morphic, then it can be extended by the left with one or two letters in such a way that it remains morphic and Sturmian. Yasutomi (1997) has proved that these were the sole possible additions and that, if we cut the first letters of such a word, it didn't remain morphic. In this paper, we give an elementary and combinatorial proof of this result.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 68R15 / 68Q45
Key words: Sturmian words / infinite words / iterated morphisms / combinatorics of words.
© EDP Sciences, 2006
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