This collaborative book presents recent trends on the study of sequences, including combinatorics on words and symbolic dynamics, and new interdisciplinary links to group theory and number theory. Other chapters branch out from those areas into subfields of theoretical computer science, such as complexity theory and theory of automata. The book is built around four general themes: number theory and sequences, word combinatorics, normal numbers, and group theory. Those topics are rounded out by investigations into automatic and regular sequences, tilings and theory of computation, discrete dynamical systems, ergodic theory, numeration systems, automaton semigroups, and amenable groups.
This volume is intended for use by graduate students or research mathematicians, as well as computer scientists who are working in automata theory and formal language theory. With its organization around unified themes, it would also be appropriate as a supplemental text for graduate level courses.
Discusses new research areas and results for sequences and number theory
Analyzes the relationship of sequence and group theory to theory of computation and applications of computer science
Describes combinatorics on words with a variety of theoretical approaches
Discusses new research areas and results for sequences and number theory Analyzes the relationship of sequence and group theory to theory of computation and applications of computer science Describes combinatorics on words with a variety of theoretical approaches
Valérie Berthé
Combinatorics Word combinatorics Normal numbers Automata Group of automata Discrete dynamical systems normal numbers amenable groups number theory numeration systems automatic sequences symbolic dynamics tilings