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Autocorrelation and the Enumeration of Strings Avoiding a Fixed String
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 1997
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.
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- 1997 Cambridge University Press
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