Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (Aug 2011)

Constructing Premaximal Binary Cube-free Words of Any Level

  • Elena A. Petrova,
  • Arseny M. Shur

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.63.23
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 63, no. Proc. WORDS 2011
pp. 168 – 178

Abstract

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We study the structure of the language of binary cube-free words. Namely, we are interested in the cube-free words that cannot be infinitely extended preserving cube-freeness. We show the existence of such words with arbitrarily long finite extensions, both to one side and to both sides.