Issue |
RAIRO-Theor. Inf. Appl.
Volume 53, Number 1-2, January–June 2019
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Page(s) | 37 - 49 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ita/2018008 | |
Published online | 17 January 2019 |
Circular critical exponents for Thue–Morse factors
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1,
Canada
* Corresponding author: shallit@uwaterloo.ca
Received:
20
August
2018
Accepted:
12
November
2018
We prove various results about the largest exponent of a repetition in a factor of the Thue–Morse word, when that factor is considered as a circular word. Our results confirm and generalize previous results of Fitzpatrick and Aberkane & Currie.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 11B85 / 68Q45 / 68R15 / 03D05 / 03B35
Key words: Thue–Morse sequence / critical exponent / finite automaton / circular word / critical exponents
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