Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4655384 | Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A | 2014 | 27 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper we consider the following question in the spirit of Ramsey theory: Given x∈Aωx∈Aω, where A is a finite non-empty set, does there exist a finite coloring of the non-empty factors of x with the property that no factorization of x is monochromatic? We prove that this question has a positive answer using two colors for almost all words relative to the standard Bernoulli measure on AωAω. We also show that it has a positive answer for various classes of uniformly recurrent words, including all aperiodic balanced words, and all words x∈Aωx∈Aω satisfying λx(n+1)−λx(n)=1λx(n+1)−λx(n)=1 for all n sufficiently large, where λx(n)λx(n) denotes the number of distinct factors of x of length n.
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Authors
Aldo de Luca, Elena V. Pribavkina, Luca Q. Zamboni,