On Operations Preserving Primitivity of Partial Words with One Hole
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چکیده
The notion of a primitive word, one that is not a power of another word, is useful in many areas including coding theory, combinatorics on words, formal language theory, and text algorithms. The proportion of such words turns out to be very high. We investigate operations that preserve the primitivity of partial words with one hole, or words that have an undefined position. As a result, all primitive binary partial words with one hole of length up to 11 can be generated.
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