Treffer: Generalised fine and Wilf's theorem for arbitrary number of periods

Title:
Generalised fine and Wilf's theorem for arbitrary number of periods
Source:
Combinatorics on WordsTheoretical computer science. 339(1):49-60
Publisher Information:
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005.
Publication Year:
2005
Physical Description:
print, 12 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., N6A 5B7, Canada
ISSN:
0304-3975
Rights:
Copyright 2005 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems

Mathematics
Accession Number:
edscal.16828955
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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The well known Fine and Wilf's theorem for words states that if a word has two periods and its length is at least as long as the-sum of the two periods minus their greatest common divisor, then the word also has as period the greatest common divisor. We generalise this result for an arbitrary number of periods. Our bound is strictly better in some cases than previous generalisations. Moreover, we prove it optimal. We show also that any extremal word is unique up to letter renaming and give an algorithm to compute both the bound and a corresponding extremal word.