Tero Harju and Dirk Nowotka
About Duval Extensions


In T. Harju and J. Karhumäki (eds), WORDS (Turku 2003), number 27 of TUCS General Publications, pages 392-397, Turku Centre of Computer Science, Turku, 2003.

Abstract

A word v=wu is a (nontrivial) Duval extension of the unbordered word w, if (u is not a prefix of v and) w is an unbordered factor of v of maximum length. A survey of the state of the art of research on Duval extensions is given in this paper.

Keywords: combinatorics on words, Duval's conjecture

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