A Coloring Problem for Sturmian and Episturmian Words

Abstract

We consider the following open question in the spirit of Ramsey theory: Given an aperiodic infinite word w, does there exist a finite coloring of its factors such that no factorization of w is monochromatic? We show that such a coloring always exists whenever w is a Sturmian word or a standard episturmian word.

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