Formalizing a Fragment of Combinatorics on Words

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10307)

Abstract

We describe an attempt to formalize some tasks in combinatorics on words using the assistance of Prover9, an automated theorem prover for first-order and equational logic.

Keywords

Formalization Periodicity Combinatorics on words Automated theorem proving 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of AlgebraCharles UniversityPragueCzech Republic
  2. 2.Computer Science DepartmentUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerqueUSA

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