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RAIRO-Theor. Inf. Appl.
Volume 50, Number 1, January-March 2016
Special issue dedicated to the 15th "Journées Montoises d'Informatique Théorique"
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| Page(s) | 39 - 66 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ita/2016010 | |
| Published online | 02 June 2016 | |
Decision algorithms for Fibonacci-automatic Words, I: Basic results
1
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo,
ON
N2L 3G1,
Canada
hamoon.mousavi@gmail.com; shallit@uwaterloo.ca
2
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
The Stata Center, MIT Building 32,
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
02139,
USA
lrschaeffer@gmail.com
Received: 24 March 2016
Accepted: 29 March 2016
We implement a decision procedure for answering questions about a class of infinite words that might be called (for lack of a better name) “Fibonacci-automatic”. This class includes, for example, the famous Fibonacci word f = f0f1f2··· = 01001010··· , the fixed point of the morphism 0 → 01 and 1 → 0. We then recover many results about the Fibonacci word from the literature (and improve some of them), such as assertions about the occurrences in f of squares, cubes, palindromes, and so forth.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 11B85 / 68R15 / 11A67 / 11B39 / 03D05 / 68Q45
Key words: Decision procedure / infinite word / Fibonacci-automatic – square / cube / palindrome / first-order logic / Fibonacci representation – quasiperiod / unbordered word / Lyndon word / uniform recurrence – linear recurrence / critical exponent
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