Palindromes in sturmian words

  • Authors:
  • Aldo de Luca;Alessandro De Luca

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni “R. Caccioppoli”, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni “R. Caccioppoli”, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

  • Venue:
  • DLT'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Developments in Language Theory
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We study some structural and combinatorial properties of Sturmian palindromes, i.e., palindromic finite factors of Sturmian words. In particular, we give a formula which permits to compute in an exact way the number of Sturmian palindromes of any length. Moreover, an interesting characterization of Sturmian palindromes is obtained.