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Product-free sets in the free semigroup

2018/12/12 by Leader, Imre, Letzter, Shoham, Narayanan, Bhargav +1
#05D05 (Secondary) #20M05 (Primary) #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.04749

Abstract

In this paper, we study product-free subsets of the free semigroup over a finite alphabet A. We prove that the maximum density of a product-free subset of the free semigroup over A, with respect to the natural measure that assigns a weight of |A|-n to each word of length n, is precisely 1/2.

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