The shuffle anti-square existence conjecture
The shuffle anti-square existence conjecture
For a binary even word of length , let be the number of circular shifts of that are shuffle squares. Let be the minimum of over all binary even words of length . A shuffle anti-square is a binary even word for which no circular shift is a shuffle square. The shuffle anti-square existence conjecture. There exists a shuffle anti-square of length for every . Equivalently, for every . Computational data establish this for the listed small values but do not prove the assertion for all ; the conjecture remains open.
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Jarosław Grytczuk, Bartłomiej Pawlik and Mariusz Pleszczyński, “Variations on shuffle squares”, arXiv:2308.13882 (2024).
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