Sums of Digits, Overlaps, and Palindromes

Let s k (n) denote the sum of the digits in the base- k representation of n. In a celebrated paper, Thue showed that the infinite word (s 2 (n) mod 2) n≥0 is overlap-free, i.e., contains no subword of the form axaxa where x is any finite word and a is a single symbol. Let k,m be intege...

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Main Authors: Jean-Paul Allouche, Jeffrey Shallit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2000-12-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://www.dmtcs.org/dmtcs-ojs/index.php/dmtcs/article/view/110