Every real number greater than 1 is a critical exponent

DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2007.04.037zbMATH Open1188.68216OpenAlexW2007361403MaRDI QIDQ995572FDOQ995572

Authors Dalia Krieger, Jeffrey Shallit

Publication date 3 September 2007

Published in Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2007.04.037

zbMATH Keywords

critical exponents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorics on words (68R15)

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