Existence of words over a binary alphabet free from squares with mismatches (Q2332806)
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Existence of words over a binary alphabet free from squares with mismatches (English)
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5 November 2019
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It is well known that any word over a binary alphabet does not contain squares, i.e., factors having the form \(xx\) for some word \(x\). Here it is proved that, for any \(\Delta\), in a binary alphabet there exist arbitrarily long words free from factors of the form \(xy\) where the words \(x\) and \(y\) differ by at most \(\Delta\) letters.
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Thue sequence
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square-free words
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word combinatorics
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mismatches
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