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On arithmetic progressions in the generalized Thue-Morse word. (English) Zbl 1330.68239

Manea, Florin (ed.) et al., Combinatorics on words. 10th international conference, WORDS 2015, Kiel, Germany, September 14–17, 2015. Proceedings. Cham: Springer (ISBN 978-3-319-23659-9/pbk; 978-3-319-23660-5/ebook). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9304, 191-196 (2015).
Summary: We consider the generalized Thue-Morse word on the alphabet \(\varSigma = \{0, 1, 2\}\). The object of the research is arithmetic progressions in this word, which are sequences consisting of identical symbols. Let \(A\)(\(d\)) be a function equal to the maximum length of an arithmetic progression with the difference \(d\) in the generalized Thue-Morse word. If \(n\), \(d\) are positive integers and \(d\) is less than \(3^n\), then the upper bound for \(A\)(\(d\)) is \(3^n+6\) and is attained with the difference \(d=3^n-1\).
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1320.68023].

MSC:

68R15 Combinatorics on words
11B25 Arithmetic progressions
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