Complexity function

Complexity function

In computer science, the complexity function of a string, a finite or infinite sequence u of letters from some alphabet, is the function of a positive integer n that counts the number of different substrings of n consecutive elements from the string u.

A Sturmian word is one of minimal complexity function n + 1. An example is the Fibonacci word.[1]

References

  1. ^ de Luca, Aldo (1995). "A division property of the Fibonacci word". Information Processing Letters 54 (6): 307–312. doi:10.1016/0020-0190(95)00067-M. 
  • Fogg, N. Pytheas; Berthé, Valérie, eds (2002). Substitutions in dynamics, arithmetics, and combinatorics. Lecture notes in mathematics. 1794. Springer. ISBN 3540441417. 

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