Some characterizations of finite 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:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - In honour of Professor Christian Choffrut on the occasion of his 60th birthday
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we give some new characterizations of words which are finite factors of Sturmian words. An enumeration formula for primitive finite Sturmian words is given. Moreover, we provide two linear-time algorithms to recognize whether a finite word is Sturmian.