Pattern Avoidability with Involution

An infinte word w avoids a pattern p with the involution t if there is no substitution for the variables in p and no involution t such that the resulting word is a factor of w. We investigate the avoidance of patterns with respect to the size of the alphabet. For example, it is shown that the patter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bastian Bischoff, Dirk Nowotka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2011-08-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.3622v1