Squares and overlaps in the Thue-Morse sequence and some variants

نویسندگان

  • Shandy Brown
  • Narad Rampersad
  • Jeffrey Shallit
  • Troy Vasiga
چکیده

We consider the position and number of occurrences of squares in the Thue-Morse sequence, and show that the corresponding sequences are 2-regular. We also prove that changing any finite but nonzero number of bits in the Thue-Morse sequence creates an overlap, and any linear subsequence of the Thue-Morse sequence (except those corresponding to decimation by a power of 2) contains an overlap. Mathematics Subject Classification. 68Q45, 68R15.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • ITA

دوره 40  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006