Palindromes in circular words

There is a very short and beautiful proof that the number of distinct non-empty palindromes in a word of length n is at most n. In this paper we show, with a very complicated proof, that the number of distinct non-empty palindromes with length at most n in a circular word of length n is less than 5n...

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Main Author: Simpson, Jamie
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26621
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Summary:There is a very short and beautiful proof that the number of distinct non-empty palindromes in a word of length n is at most n. In this paper we show, with a very complicated proof, that the number of distinct non-empty palindromes with length at most n in a circular word of length n is less than 5n/3. For n divisible by 3 we present circular words of length n containing 5n/3 -2 distinct palindromes, so the bound is almost sharp. The paper finishes with some open problems.