Abelian Complexity in Minimal Subshifts

Details Abelian Complexity in Minimal Subshifts Abelian Complexity in Minimal Subshifts

2009-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/0911.2914v1

J. London Math. Soc.2010

Mathematics

Combinatorics

19 pages

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In this paper we undertake the general study of the Abelian complexity of an infinite word on a finite alphabet. We investigate both similarities and differences between the Abelian complexity and the usual subword complexity. While the Thue-Morse minimal subshift is neither characterized by its Abelian complexity nor by its subword complexity alone, we show that the subshift is completely characterized by the two complexity functions together. We give an affirmative answer to an old question of G. Rauzy by exhibiting a class of words whose Abelian complexity is everywhere equal to 3. We also investigate links between Abelian complexity and the existence of Abelian powers. Using van der Waerden's Theorem, we show that any minimal subshift having bounded Abelian complexity contains Abelian k-powers for every positive integer k. In the case of Sturmian words we prove something stronger: For every Sturmian word w and positive integer k, each sufficiently long factor of w begins in an Abelian k-power.

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