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A Note on a Conjecture of Duval and Sturmian Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2002

Filippo Mignosi  and
Luca Q. Zamboni
Filippo Mignosi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italia; mignosi@dipmat.math.unipa.it.
Luca Q. Zamboni
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, P.O. Box 311430, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203-1430, USA; luca@unt.edu.
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Abstract

We prove a long standing conjecture of Duval in the special case of Sturmian words.

Keywords

Bordered wordsSturmian words.
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 1 - 3
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2002

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