Factorizing Codes and Schützenberger Conjectures

  • Authors:
  • Clelia de Felice

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • MFCS '00 Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper we mainly deal with factorizing codes C over A, i.e., codes verifying the famous still open factorization conjecture formulated by Schützenberger. Suppose A = {a,b} and denote an the power of a in C. We show how we can construct C starting with factorizing codes C′ with an′ ∈ C′ and n′ n, under the hypothesis that all words aiwaj in C, with w ∈ bA*b ∪ {b}, satisfy i, j n. The operation involved, already introduced in [1], is also used to show that all maximal codes C = P(A - 1)S + 1 with P, S ∈ Z(A) and P or S in Z(a) can be constructed by means of this operation starting from prefix and suffix codes. Inspired by another early Schützenberger conjecture, we propose here an open problem related to the results obtained and to the operation introduced in [1] and considered in this paper.