Recurrent word
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In mathematics, a recurrent word or sequence is an infinite word over a finite alphabet in which every factor occurs infinitely many times.[1][2][3] An infinite word is recurrent if and only if it is a sesquipower.[4][5] A uniformly recurrent word is a recurrent word in which for any given factor X in the sequence, there is some length nX (often much longer than the length of X) such that X appears in every block of length nX.[1][6][7] The terms minimal sequence[8] and almost periodic sequence (Muchnik, Semenov, Ushakov 2003) are also used.
Examples
- The easiest way to make a recurrent sequence is to form a periodic sequence, one where the sequence repeats entirely after a given number m of steps. Such a sequence is then uniformly recurrent and nX can be set to any multiple of m that is larger than twice the length of X. A recurrent sequence that is ultimately periodic is purely periodic.[2]
- The Thue–Morse sequence is uniformly recurrent without being periodic, nor even eventually periodic (meaning periodic after some nonperiodic initial segment).[9]
- All Sturmian words are uniformly recurrent.[10]
References
- Allouche, Jean-Paul; Shallit, Jeffrey (2003). Automatic Sequences: Theory, Applications, Generalizations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82332-6.
- Berstel, Jean; Lauve, Aaron; Reutenauer, Christophe; Saliola, Franco V. (2009). Combinatorics on words. Christoffel words and repetitions in words. CRM Monograph Series. 27. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4480-9. https://www.ams.org/bookpages/crmm-27.
- Berthé, Valérie; Rigo, Michel, eds (2010). Combinatorics, automata, and number theory. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. 135. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51597-9.
- Lothaire, M. (2011). Algebraic combinatorics on words. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications. 90. With preface by Jean Berstel and Dominique Perrin (Reprint of the 2002 hardback ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-18071-9.
- Pytheas Fogg, N. (2002). Substitutions in dynamics, arithmetics and combinatorics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1794. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-44141-7.
- An. Muchnik, A. Semenov, M. Ushakov, Almost periodic sequences, Theoret. Comput. Sci. vol.304 no.1-3 (2003), 1-33.
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