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Solutions to the Multi-dimensional Equal Powers Problem Constructed by Composition of Rectangular Morphisms

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Based on the original approach of Eugène Prouhet, using composition of morphism-like array-words mappings, we provide a construction of solutions to the multi-dimensional Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem.

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Černý, A. (2014). Solutions to the Multi-dimensional Equal Powers Problem Constructed by Composition of Rectangular Morphisms. In: Dediu, AH., Martín-Vide, C., Sierra-Rodríguez, JL., Truthe, B. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8370. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04921-2_22

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