Decidability for Sturmian words

We show that the first-order theory of Sturmian words over Presburger arithmetic is decidable. Using a general adder recognizing addition in Ostrowski numeration systems by Baranwal, Schaeffer and Shallit, we prove that the first-order expansions of Presburger arithmetic by a single Sturmian word ar...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2024-08
Hauptverfasser: Hieronymi, Philipp, Dun Ma, Oei, Reed, Schaeffer, Luke, Schulz, Christian, Shallit, Jeffrey
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Zusammenfassung:We show that the first-order theory of Sturmian words over Presburger arithmetic is decidable. Using a general adder recognizing addition in Ostrowski numeration systems by Baranwal, Schaeffer and Shallit, we prove that the first-order expansions of Presburger arithmetic by a single Sturmian word are uniformly \(\omega\)-automatic, and then deduce the decidability of the theory of the class of such structures. Using an implementation of this decision algorithm called Pecan, we automatically reprove classical theorems about Sturmian words in seconds, and are able to obtain new results about antisquares and antipalindromes in characteristic Sturmian words.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2102.08207