About some overlap-free morphisms on a n-letter alphabet

  • Authors:
  • Patrice Séébold

  • Affiliations:
  • LaRIA, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 5, rue du Moulin Neuf, F-80000 Amiens, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics - Third international workshop on descriptional complexity of automata, grammars and related structures
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In 1912, the Norwegian mathematician Axel Thue was the first to describe an overlapfree binary infinite word. This word was generated by a morphism which is called, since the works of Morse, the Thue-Morse morphism.Here we study morphisms, generalizing the Thue-Morse morphism in the case of alphabets with more than two letters, which are obtained from a construction made by Prouhet in 1851. We examine in which case these morphisms are overlap-free and prove that the Prouhet words they generate are rigid. We also give a link with the construction realized by Arshon in 1937, proving in particular that the n-letter Arshon word is generated by morphism if and only if n is an even number. These words are also rigid.