Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4673156 | Indagationes Mathematicae | 2011 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
The study of the redundancy of non-integer base numeration systems involves several fields of mathematics and of theoretical computer science, including number theory, ergodic theory, topology, and combinatorics on words. When the base is smaller than a sharp value, called critical base, only trivial expansions in a non-integer base are unique, while for greater bases there exist some non-trivial unique expansions. By investigating an unexpected relation between balanced sequences and unique expansions, we explicitly characterize for a large class of three-letter alphabets the minimal unique expansions, namely those unique expansions that first appear when we choose bases larger than the critical base.
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Authors
Anna Chiara Lai,