Binomial Complexities and Parikh-Collinear Morphisms

01/12/2022

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by   Michel Rigo, et al.

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Two words are k-binomially equivalent, if each word of length at most k occurs as a subword, or scattered factor, the same number of times in both words. The k-binomial complexity of an infinite word maps the natural n to the number of k-binomial equivalence classes represented by its factors of length n. Inspired by questions raised by Lejeune, we study the relationships between the k and (k+1)-binomial complexities; as well as the link with the usual factor complexity. We show that pure morphic words obtained by iterating a Parikh-collinear morphism, i.e. a morphism mapping all words to words with bounded abelian complexity, have bounded k-binomial complexity. In particular, we study the properties of the image of a Sturmian word by an iterate of the Thue-Morse morphism.