Numeration systems: a link between number theory and formal language theory

  • Authors:
  • Michel Rigo

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Liège, Institut de Mathématiques, Liège, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • DLT'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Developments in language theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We survey facts mostly emerging from the seminal results of Alan Cobham obtained in the late sixties and early seventies. We do not attempt to be exhaustive but try instead to give some personal interpretations and some research directions. We discuss the notion of numeration systems, recognizable sets of integers and automatic sequences. We briefly sketch some results about transcendence related to the representation of real numbers. We conclude with some applications to combinatorial game theory and verification of infinite-state systems and present a list of open problems.