On a conjecture on bidimensional words

  • Authors:
  • Chiara Epifanio;Michel Koskas;Filippo Mignosi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, Palermo I-90123, Italy;Faculté de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, Palermo I-90123, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We prove that, given a double sequence w over the alphabet A (i.e. a mapping from Z2 to A), if there exists a pair (n0, m0) ∈ Z2 such that pw(n0, m0) n0m0, then w has a periodicity vector, where pw is the complexity function in rectangles of w.