Unbordered factors and Lyndon words

نویسندگان

  • Jean-Pierre Duval
  • Tero Harju
  • Dirk Nowotka
چکیده

A primitive word w is a Lyndon word if w is minimal among all its conjugates with respect to some lexicographic order. A word w is bordered if there is a nonempty word u such that w = uvu for some word v. A right extension of a word w of length n is a word wu where all factors longer than n are bordered. A right extension wu of w is called trivial if there exists a positive integer k such that w = uv for some word v. We prove that Lyndon words have only trivial right extensions. Moreover, we give a conjecture which characterizes a property of every word w which has a nontrivial right extension of length 2|w| − 2.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Mathematics

دوره 308  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008