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math.CO2019
Repetitions in infinite palindrome-rich words
Aseem Raj Baranwal, Jeffrey Shallit
Rich words are characterized by containing the maximum possible number of distinct palindromes. Several characteristic properties of rich words have been studied; yet the analysis…
cs.FL2019
Critical exponent of infinite balanced words via the Pell number system
Aseem Raj Baranwal, Jeffrey Shallit
In a recent paper of Rampersad et al., the authors conjectured that the smallest possible critical exponent of an infinite balanced word over a 5-letter alphabet is . We prove…