On universal partial words

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Chen, Herman Z. Q.; Kitaev, Sergey; Mütze, Torsten; Sun, Brian Y.;
(2016)
  • Related identifiers: doi: 10.23638/DMTCS-19-1-16
  • Subject: Mathematics - Combinatorics | Computer Science - Information Theory | Computer Science - Formal Languages and Automata Theory
    arxiv: Computer Science::Computation and Language (Computational Linguistics and Natural Language and Speech Processing) | Computer Science::Formal Languages and Automata Theory
A universal word for a finite alphabet $A$ and some integer $n\geq 1$ is a word over $A$ such that every word in $A^n$ appears exactly once as a subword (cyclically or linearly). It is well-known and easy to prove that universal words exist for any $A$ and $n$. In this ... View more
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