Linear-length anti-power conjecture for aperiodic morphic words

Let WW be a sufficiently well-behaved aperiodic morphic word. A kk-anti-power is a concatenation of kk consecutive pairwise distinct words of equal length.

Linear-length anti-power conjecture. There is a constant C=C(W)C=C(W) such that, for all positive integers ii and kk, WW contains a kk-anti-power with blocks of length at most CkCk beginning at its iith position.

This conjecture proposes a uniform linear bound on the block length needed to find anti-powers at every position of a sufficiently well-behaved aperiodic morphic word. The phrase “sufficiently well-behaved” is intentionally left vague in the source, so the precise class of words for which the claim should hold remains open.

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Aaron Berger and Colin Defant, “On Anti-Powers in Aperiodic Recurrent Words”, arXiv:1902.01291 (2019).

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