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Properties of Pseudo-Primitive Words and their Applications

Lila Kari
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Benoît Masson
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A pseudo-primitive word with respect to an antimorphic involution θ is a word which cannot be written as a catenation of occurrences of a strictly shorter word t and θ(t). Properties of pseudo-primitive words are investigated in this paper. These properties link pseudo-primitive words with essential notions in combinatorics on words such as primitive words, (pseudo)-palindromes, and (pseudo)-commutativity. Their applications include an improved solution to the extended Lyndon-Schützenberger equation u_1 u_2 ... u_l = v_1 ... v_n w_1 ... w_m, where u_1, ..., u_l ∈ {u, θ(u)}, v_1, ..., v_n ∈ {v, θ(v)}, and w_1, ..., w_m ∈ {w, θ(w)} for some words u, v, w, integers l, n, m ≥ 2, and an antimorphic involution θ. We prove that for l ≥ 4, n, m ≥ 3, this equation implies that u, v, w can be expressed in terms of a common word t and its image θ(t). Moreover, several cases of this equation where l = 3 are examined.
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hal-00458695 , version 1 (22-02-2010)

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Lila Kari, Benoît Masson, Shinnosuke Seki. Properties of Pseudo-Primitive Words and their Applications. 2009. ⟨hal-00458695⟩
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