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Autocorrelation and the Enumeration of Strings Avoiding a Fixed String

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

KIMMO ERIKSSON
KIMMO ERIKSSON
Affiliation:
Stockholm University, S-106 09 Stockholm, Sweden (e-mail: [email protected])
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Abstract

Considering strings over a finite alphabet [Ascr ], say that a string is w-avoiding if it does not contain w as a substring. It is known that the number aw(n) of w-avoiding strings of length n depends only on the autocorrelation of w as defined by Guibas–Odlyzko. We give a simple criterion on the autocorrelations of w and w′ for determining whether aw(n) > aw′(n) for all large enough n.

Type
Research Article
Information
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 45 - 48
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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