Abstract

We give a short proof of a result by C.M. Weinbaum stating that a primitive word w of length at least two has a conjugate w'=uv such that both u and v have a unique position in the cyclic word of w.

Keywords: combinatorics on words, Weinbaum factorizations, critical points, bordered words, primitive words

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