On a question of Luca and Schinzel over Segal–Piatetski-Shapiro sequences

On numbers of Davenport-Schinzel sequences

One class of Davenport-Schinzel sequences consists of finite sequences over n symbols without immediate repetitions and without any subsequence of the type abab. We present a bijective encoding of such sequences by rooted plane trees with distinguished nonleaves and we give a combinatorial proof of the formula 1 k − n+ 1 ( 2k − 2n k − n )( k − 1 2n− k − 1 ) for the number of such normalized seq...

8. Davenport-schinzel Sequences

Definition 18.1 A (n, s)-Davenport-Schinzel sequence is a sequence over an alphabet A of size n in which no two consecutive characters are the same and there is no alternating subsequence of the form .

Generalized Davenport-Schinzel Sequences

The extremal function Ex(u, n) (introduced in the theory of DavenportSchinzel sequences in other notation) denotes for a fixed finite alternating sequence u = ababa . . . the maximum length of a finite sequence v over n symbols with no immediate repetition which does not contain u. Here (following the idea of J. Nešetřil) we generalize this concept for arbitrary sequence u. We summarize the alr...

Tightish Bounds on Davenport-Schinzel Sequences

Let Ψs(n) be the extremal function of order-s Davenport-Schinzel sequences over an n-letter alphabet. Together with existing bounds due to Hart and Sharir (s = 3), Agarwal, Sharir, and Shor (s = 4, lower bounds on s ≥ 6), and Nivasch (upper bounds on even s), we give the following essentially tight bounds on Ψs(n) for all s: Ψs(n) =  n s = 1

Generalized Rudin – Shapiro sequences