Carpi's conjecture on abelian power-free morphisms

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Let Σ\Sigma be a finite alphabet, and let a morphism on Σ\Sigma be called abelian power-free when its images avoid abelian powers of the relevant exponent. Carpi's set of conditions is the criterion for abelian power-freeness referred to in the source. Carpi's conjecture. For alphabets of size less than six, Carpi's conditions are necessary and sufficient for a morphism to be abelian power-free. Carpi's conditions are already known to give a complete characterization for alphabets of size at least six, while necessity and sufficiency in the smaller-alphabet case are posed here as unresolved.

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Sadık Eyidoğan, Haydar Göral and Nihan Tanısalı, “Box Progressions, Abelian Power-Free Morphisms and A Sieve Technique for the Template Method”, arXiv:2605.20504 (2026).

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