Anne Lacroix ; Narad Rampersad - Automaticity of primitive words and irreducible polynomials

dmtcs:632 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 28, 2013, Vol. 15 no. 1 - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.632
Automaticity of primitive words and irreducible polynomialsArticle

Authors: Anne Lacroix 1; Narad Rampersad 1

  • 1 Département de Mathématiques [Liège]

If L is a language, the automaticity function A_L(n) (resp. N_L(n)) of L counts the number of states of a smallest deterministic (resp. non-deterministic) finite automaton that accepts a language that agrees with L on all inputs of length at most n. We provide bounds for the automaticity of the language of primitive words and the language of unbordered words over a k-letter alphabet. We also give a bound for the automaticity of the language of base-b representations of the irreducible polynomials over a finite field. This latter result is analogous to a result of Shallit concerning the base-k representations of the set of prime numbers.


Volume: Vol. 15 no. 1
Section: Automata, Logic and Semantics
Published on: January 28, 2013
Accepted on: June 9, 2015
Submitted on: July 4, 2011
Keywords: [INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]

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