IBP-Litp
1994/61:
Rapport de Recherche Litp /
Litp research reports
11 pages - Octobre/October 1994 -
Document en anglais.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: A Rewriting of Fife's Theorem about Overlap-free Words
Abstract : The purpose of this expository paper is to present a self-contained proof of a famous theorem of Fife that gives a full description of the set of infinite overlap-free words over a binary alphabet. Fife's characterization consists in a parametrization of these infinite words by a set of infinite words over a ternary alphabet. The result is that the latter is a regular set. The proof is by the explicit construction of the minimal automaton, obtained by the method of left quotients.
Publications internes Litp 1994 / Litp research reports 1994