Thue-Morse-Sturmian words and critical bases for ternary alphabets
Abstract
The set of unique β-expansions over the alphabet \0,1\ is trivial for β below the golden ratio and uncountable above the Komornik-Loreti constant. Generalisations of these thresholds for three-letter alphabets were studied by Komornik, Lai and Pedicini (2011, 2017). We use S-adic words including the Thue-Morse word (which defines the Komornik-Loreti constant) and Sturmian words (which characterise generalised golden ratios) to determine the value of a certain generalisation of the Komornik-Loreti constant to three-letter alphabets.
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