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On repetition-free binary words of minimal density

Roman Kolpakov
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Yuri Tarannikov
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Abstract

In \cite{KolpakovKucherovMFCS97}, a notion of minimal proportion (density) of one letter in $n$-th power-free binary words has been introduced and some of its properties have been proved. In this paper, we proceed with this study and substantially extend some of these results. First, we introduce and analyse a general notion of minimal letter density for any infinite set of words which don't contain a specified set of ``prohibited'' subwords. We then prove that for $n$-th power-free binary words, the density function is $\frac{1}{n}+\frac{1}{n^3}+\frac{1}{n^4}+ {\cal O}(\frac{1}{n^5})$ refining the estimate from \cite{KolpakovKucherovMFCS97}. Following \cite{KolpakovKucherovMFCS97}, we also consider a natural generalization of $n$-th power-free words to $x$-th power-free words for real argument $x$. We prove that the minimal proportion of one letter in $x$-th power-free binary words, considered as a function of $x$, is discontinuous at all integer points $n\geq 3$. Finally, we give an estimate of the size of the jumps.
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inria-00098692 , version 1 (26-09-2006)

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Roman Kolpakov, Gregory Kucherov, Yuri Tarannikov. On repetition-free binary words of minimal density. 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science - MFCS'98, 1998, Brno/Czech Republic, pp.683-692, ⟨10.1007/BFb0055819⟩. ⟨inria-00098692⟩
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