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Initial powers of Sturmian sequences
Abstract : In this paper we investigate powers of prefixes of Sturmian sequences. We give an explicit formula for ice(ω), the initial critical exponent of a Sturmian sequence ω, defined as the supremum of all real numbers p > 0 for which there exist arbitrary long prefixes of ω of the form up, in terms of its S-adic representation. This formula is based on Ostrowski's numeration system. Furthermore we characterize those irrational slopes α of which there exists a Sturmian sequence ω beginning in only finitely many powers of 2 + ε, that is for which ice(ω) = 2. In the process we recover the known results for the index (or critical exponent) of a Sturmian sequence. We also focus on the Fibonacci Sturmian shift and prove that the set of Sturmian sequences with ice strictly smaller than its everywhere value has Hausdorff dimension 1.
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https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-00123046
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Contributor : Valerie Berthe <>
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Last modification on : Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 3:53:21 AM
Long-term archiving on: : Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 1:54:19 AM
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