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A304681
Smallest odd positive integer t such that the prefix of length tn of the Thue-Morse sequence (A010060) is an n-antipower.
1
1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 25, 25, 29, 29, 29, 29, 35, 35, 35, 35, 39, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, 61, 61, 61, 61, 61, 61, 61, 61, 61, 91, 91, 95, 95, 95, 95
OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
A word of length tn is an n-antipower if all n consecutive blocks of length t are distinct.
REFERENCES
Gabriele Fici, Antonio Restivo, Manuel Silva, and Luca Q. Zamboni, Anti-powers in infinite words, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 157 (2018), 109-119.
LINKS
Colin Defant, Anti-Power Prefixes of the Thue-Morse Word, Electronic J. Combinatorics 24 (1) (2017), Paper #P1.32.
EXAMPLE
For n = 3, the prefixes (0)(1)(1) and (011)(010)(011) are not 3-antipowers, but the prefix (01101)(00110)(01011) is.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A293982 A071577 A003870 * A076407 A134701 A291655
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Shallit, May 16 2018
STATUS
approved