Words derivated from Sturmian words

Sturmian Words: Dynamical Systems and Derivated Words

Return words in Sturmian and episturmian words

Considering each occurrence of a word w in a recurrent infinite word, we define the set of return words of w to be the set of all distinct words beginning with an occurrence of w and ending exactly just before the next occurrence of w in the infinite word. We give a simpler proof of the recent result (of the second author) that an infinite word is Sturmian if and only if each of its factors has...

Sturmian Words, Lyndon Words and Trees

We prove some new combinatorial properties of the set PER of all words w having two periods p and q which are coprimes and such that w = p + q 2 [4,3]. We show that aPERb U {a, b} = St n Lynd, where St is the set of the finite factors of all infinite Sturmian words and Lynd is the set of the Lyndon words on the alphabet {a, b}. It is also shown that aPERb U {a, b} = CP, where CP is the set of C...

Palindromes in Sturmian Words

We study some structural and combinatorial properties of Sturmian palindromes, i.e., palindromic finite factors of Sturmian words. In particular, we give a formula which permits to compute in an exact way the number of Sturmian palindromes of any length. Moreover, an interesting characterization of Sturmian palindromes is obtained.

A note on Sturmian words

We describe an algorithm which, given a factor of a Sturmian word, computes the next factor of the same length in the lexicographic order in linear time. It is based on a combinatorial property of Sturmian words which is related with the Burrows-Wheeler transformation.