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Theoretical Computer Science

Volume 784, 13 September 2019, Pages 81-98
Theoretical Computer Science

Composition inverses of the variations of the Baum–Sweet sequence

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Abstract

Studying and comparing arithmetic properties of a given automatic sequence and the sequence of coefficients of the composition inverse of the associated formal power series (the formal inverse of that sequence) is an interesting problem. This problem was studied before for the Thue–Morse sequence. In this paper, we study arithmetic properties of the formal inverses of two sequences closely related to the well-known Baum–Sweet sequence. We give the recurrence relations for their formal inverses and we determine whether the sequences of indices at which these formal inverses take value 0 and 1 are regular. We also show an unexpected connection between one of the obtained sequences and the formal inverse of the Thue–Morse sequence.

Keywords

Baum–Sweet sequence
Automatic sequence
Regular sequence
Formal power series

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