On some Schützenberger conjectures

  • Authors:
  • Clelia De Felice

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Salerno, Baronissi, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we consider factorizing codes C over A, i.e., codes verifying the factorization conjecture by Schützenberger. Let n be the positive integer such that anεC, we show how we can construct C starting with factorizing codes C' with anεC' and n' , under the hypothesis that all words aizaj in C, with zε(A\a) A*(A\a) ∪ (A\a), satisfy i, j, n. The operation involved, already introduced by Anselmo, is also used to show that all maximal codes C=P (A-1) S+1 with P, SεZ(A) and P or S in Z(a) can be constructed by means of this operation starting with prefix and suffix codes. Old conjectures by Schützenberger have been revised. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.