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Combinatorics on words and generating Dirichlet series of automatic sequences. arXiv:2401.13524

Preprint, arXiv:2401.13524 [math.CO] (2024).
Summary: Generating series are crucial in enumerative combinatorics, analytic combinatorics, and combinatorics on words. Though it might seem at first view that generating Dirichlet series are less used in these fields than ordinary and exponential generating series, there are many notable papers where they play a fundamental role, as can be seen in particular in the work of Flajolet and several of his co-authors. In this paper, we study Dirichlet series of integers with missing digits or blocks of digits in some integer base \(b\), i.e., where the summation ranges over the integers whose expansions form some language strictly included in the set of all words on the alphabet \(\{0, 1, \dots, b-1\}\) that do not begin with a \(0\). We show how to unify and extend results proved by Nathanson in 2021 and by Köhler and Spilker in 2009. En route, we encounter several sequences from Sloane’s On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, as well as some famous \(q\)-automatic sequences or \(q\)-regular sequences.

MSC:

05A15 Exact enumeration problems, generating functions
11B85 Automata sequences
11M41 Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions
40A05 Convergence and divergence of series and sequences
68R15 Combinatorics on words
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