SOME PROPERTIES OF FIBONACCI LANGUGAES

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CHENG-MING FAN
H. J. SHYR

Abstract




Two particular types of Fibonacci languages $F_{a, b}^1=\{a, b, ab, bab, abbab, \cdots \}$ and $F_{a, b}^0=\{a, b, ba, bab, babba, \cdots \}$





were defined on the free monoid $X^*$ generated by the alphabet $X = \{a, b\}$. In this paper we investigate some algebraic properties of these two types of Fibonacci languages. We show that a general Fi­bonacci language is a homomorphical image of either $F_{a, b}^1$ or $F_{a, b}^0$. We also study the properties of Fibonacci language related to formal language theory and codes We obtained the facts that every Fibonacci word is a primitive word and for any $u \in X^+$, $u^4$ is not a subword of any words in both $F_{a, b}^1$ and $F_{a, b}^0$.


 





 




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FAN, C.-M., & SHYR, H. J. (1996). SOME PROPERTIES OF FIBONACCI LANGUGAES. Tamkang Journal of Mathematics, 27(2), 165–182. https://doi.org/10.5556/j.tkjm.27.1996.4357
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