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A260450 Infinite palindromic word (a(1),a(2),a(3),...) with initial word w(1) = (1,3,2) and midword sequence (a(n)); see Comments. 2

%I #4 Sep 07 2015 12:32:29

%S 1,3,2,1,2,3,1,3,1,3,2,1,2,3,1,2,1,3,2,1,2,3,1,3,1,3,2,1,2,3,1,1,1,3,

%T 2,1,2,3,1,3,1,3,2,1,2,3,1,2,1,3,2,1,2,3,1,3,1,3,2,1,2,3,1,2,1,3,2,1,

%U 2,3,1,3,1,3,2,1,2,3,1,2,1,3,2,1,2,3

%N Infinite palindromic word (a(1),a(2),a(3),...) with initial word w(1) = (1,3,2) and midword sequence (a(n)); see Comments.

%C Below, w* denotes the reversal of a word w, and "sequence" and "word" are interchangable. An infinite word is palindromic if it has infinitely many initial subwords w such that w = w*.

%C Many infinite palindromic words (a(1),a(2),...) are determined by an initial word w and a midword sequence (m(1),m(2),...) of palindromes, as follows: for given w of length k, take w(1) = w = (a(1),a(2),...,a(k)). Form the palindrome w(2) = w(1)m(1)w(1)* by concatenating w(1), m(1), and w(1)*. Continue inductively; i.e., w(n+1) = w(n)m(n)w(n)* for all n >= 1. See A260390 for examples.

%H Clark Kimberling, <a href="/A260450/b260450.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%e w(1) = 132, the initial word.

%e w(2) = 1321231 ( = 132+1+231, where + = concatenation)

%e w(3) = w(2)+2+w(2)*

%e w(4) = w(3)+3+w(3)*

%t u[1] = {1, 3, 2}; m[1] = {u[1][[1]]};

%t u[n_] := u[n] = Join[u[n - 1], m[n - 1], Reverse[u[n - 1]]]

%t m[k_] := {u[k][[k]]}; v = u[8]

%Y Cf. A260390, A260449.

%K nonn,easy

%O 1,2

%A _Clark Kimberling_, Aug 24 2015

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