On the number of palindromically rich words

Glen, A.ORCID: 0000-0002-9434-3412 (2015) On the number of palindromically rich words. In: 59th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, 28 September - 1 October 2015, Flinders University, Adelaide.

Abstract

Rich words (also known as full words ) are a special family of finite and infinite words characterised by containing the maximal number of distinct palindromes. We prove that the number of rich words of length n over a finite alphabet A (consisting of 3 or more letters) grows at least polynomially with the size of A. We also show asymptotic exponential growth for the number of rich words of length 2n over a 2-letter alphabet. Moreover, we discuss possible factor complexity functions of rich words and consider the difficult (open) problem of enumerating the finite rich words over a fixed finite alphabet.

Item Type:	Conference Item
Murdoch Affiliation:	School of Engineering and Information Technology
Conference Website:	https://www.austms.org.au/
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/39771

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