Abelian-square-rich words

Abelian-square-rich words

An abelian square is the concatenation of two words that are anagrams of one another. A word of length n can contain at most Θ(n) distinct factors, and there exist words of length n containing Θ(n) distinct abelian-square factors, that is, distinct factors that are abelian squares. This motivates us to study infinite words such that the number of distinct abelian-square factors of length n grow...

Rich square-free words

A word w is rich if it has |w| + 1 many distinct palindromic factors, including the empty word. A word is square-free if it does not have a factor uu, where u is a non-empty word. Pelantová and Starosta (Discrete Math. 313 (2013)) proved that every infinite rich word contains a square. We will give another proof for that result. Pelantová and Starosta denoted by r(n) the length of a longest ric...

Abelian Square-Free Partial Words

Erdös raised the question whether there exist infinite abelian square-free words over a given alphabet (words in which no two adjacent subwords are permutations of each other). Infinite abelian square-free words have been constructed over alphabets of sizes as small as four. In this paper, we investigate the problem of avoiding abelian squares in partial words (sequences that may contain some h...

Words Avoiding Abelian Inclusions

Abelian Properties of Words

We say that two finite words u and v are abelian equivalent if and only if they have the same number of occurrences of each letter, or equivalently if they define the same Parikh vector. In this paper we investigate various abelian properties of words including abelian complexity, and abelian powers. We study the abelian complexity of the Thue-Morse word and the Tribonacci word, and answer an o...