A gap of the exponents of repetitions of Sturmian words

Abstract: By measuring second occurring times of factors of an infinite word

x

, Bugeaud and Kim introduced a new quantity

m r e p (x)

called the exponent of repetition of

x

. It was proved by Bugeaud and Kim that

1 l e q m r e p (x) l e q r_{m a x} = s q r t 10 - 3 / 2

if

x

is a Sturmian words. In this paper, we determine the value

r_{1}

such that there is no Sturmian word

x

satisfying

r_{1} < m r e p (x) < r_{m a x}

and

r_{1}

is an accumulation point of the set of

m r e p (x)

when

x

runs over the Sturmian words.

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