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Periodicity Problem of Substitutions over TernaryAlphabets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2008

Bo Tan  and
Zhi-Ying Wen
Bo Tan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China; bo_tan@163.com
Zhi-Ying Wen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China; wenzy@tsinghua.edu.cn
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Abstract

In this paper, we characterize the substitutions over a three-letter alphabet which generate a ultimately periodic sequence.

Keywords

Periodicitysubstitution.
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 42 , Issue 4: Fibonacci words , October 2008 , pp. 747 - 762
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© EDP Sciences, 2008

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