Prague Stringology Conference 2010

Hideo Bannai, Mathieu Giraud, Kazuhiko Kusano, Wataru Matsubara, Ayumi Shinohara and Jamie Simpson

The Number of Runs in a Ternary Word

Abstract:
It is not known that the maximum number of runs in a word of length n is attained by a binary word though it seems likely that this is the case. In this note, we report observations on runs in ternary words, in which every small factor contains all three letters.

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