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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

On the Irreducibility of Certain Shifts of Finite Type

Tetsuya KOBAYASHI, Akiko MANADA, Takahiro OTA, Hiroyoshi MORITA

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A shift of finite type (SFT) is a set of all bi-infinite sequences over some alphabet which is characterized by a finite set of forbidden words. It is a typical example of sofic shifts and has been used in media storage area, such as CD's or DVD's. The study of sofic shifts is based on graph theory, and the irreducibility of shifts is an important property to be considered for the study. In this paper, we will provide some sufficient conditions for an SFT to be irreducible from the perspective of the antidictionary of a word and the number of forbidden words. We also present a necessary and sufficient condition for an SFT to be irreducible when the number of forbidden words is one less than the alphabet size.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E96-A No.12 pp.2415-2421
Publication Date
2013/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E96.A.2415
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category
Sequence

Authors

Tetsuya KOBAYASHI
  The University of Electro-Communications
Akiko MANADA
  The University of Electro-Communications
Takahiro OTA
  Nagano Prefectural Institute of Technology
Hiroyoshi MORITA
  The University of Electro-Communications

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