On fairness of D0L systems

  • Authors:
  • Anton erný

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969, Safat 13060, Kuwait

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A word is called fair if it contains, for each pair of distinct symbols a,b, the same number of occurrences of the scattered subword ab as of ba. We prove that if the first k+1 words in the sequence generated by a D0L system over a k-letter alphabet are fair then all words in the sequence are fair.