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Degree and decomposability of variable-length codes

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1991)

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In the framework of two Schützenberger's conjectures on codes, we characterize the degree of finite maximal codes over the alphabet {a,b} with at most 3 occurrences of the letter b by word; it is strongly related to the number of factorizations of the code. We also describe all the indecomposable codes inside this family.

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Javier Leach Albert Burkhard Monien Mario Rodríguez Artalejo

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Bruyere, V., De Felice, C. (1991). Degree and decomposability of variable-length codes. In: Albert, J.L., Monien, B., Artalejo, M.R. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 510. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54233-7_165

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