
SOME PROPERTIES OF FIBONACCI LANGUGAES
Author(s) -
Cheng-Ming Fan,
H. J. Shyr
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
tamkang journal of mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.324
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 0049-2930
pISSN - 2073-9826
DOI - 10.5556/j.tkjm.27.1996.4357
Subject(s) - fibonacci number , alphabet , mathematics , combinatorics , word (group theory) , algebraic properties , discrete mathematics , arithmetic , linguistics , philosophy , geometry
Two particular types of Fibonacci languages $F_{a, b}^1=\{a, b, ab, bab, abbab, \cdots \}$ and $F_{a, b}^0=\{a, b, ba, bab, babba, \cdots \}$
were defined on the free monoid $X^*$ generated by the alphabet $X = \{a, b\}$. In this paper we investigate some algebraic properties of these two types of Fibonacci languages. We show that a general Fibonacci language is a homomorphical image of either $F_{a, b}^1$ or $F_{a, b}^0$. We also study the properties of Fibonacci language related to formal language theory and codes We obtained the facts that every Fibonacci word is a primitive word and for any $u \in X^+$, $u^4$ is not a subword of any words in both $F_{a, b}^1$ and $F_{a, b}^0$.