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    • Abelian complexity of fixed point of morphism 0 ↦ 012, 1 ↦ 02, 2 ↦ 1 

      Blanchet-Sadri, F.; Currie, James D.; Rampersad, Narad; Fox, Nathan (Integers, 2014-02-20)
      We study the combinatorics of vtm, a variant of the Thue-Morse word generated by the non-uniform morphism 0 ↦ 012, 1 ↦ 02, 2 ↦ 1 starting with 0. This infinite ternary sequence appears a lot in the literature and finds ...
    • Attainable lengths for circular binary words avoiding k-powers 

      Currie, James D.; Aberkane, Ali (The Belgian Mathematical Society, 2005)
      We show that binary circular words of length n avoiding 7/3+ powers exist for every sufficiently large n. This is not the case for binary circular words avoiding k+ powers with k < 7/3
    • Avoidability index for binary patterns with reversal 

      Currie, James D.; Lafrance, Phillip (2017)
      For every pattern p over the alphabet {x,x^R,y,y^R}, we specify the least k such that p is k-avoidable.
    • Avoidability index for binary patterns with reversal 

      Currie, James; Lafrance, Philip (The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2016-02-19)
      For every pattern p over the alphabet {x, x^R, y, y^R}, we specify the least k such that p is k-avoidable.
    • Avoiding Patterns in the Abelian Sense 

      Currie, J.; Linek, V. (Canadian Mathematical Society, 2001-08)
      We classify all 3 letter patterns that are avoidable in the abelian sense. A short list of four letter patterns for which abelian avoidance is undecided is given. Using a generalization of Zimin words we deduce some ...
    • Avoiding three consecutive blocks of the same size and same sum 

      Currie, James D.; Cassaigne, Julien; Shallit, Jeffrey O.; Schaeffer, Luke (Association of Computing Machinery, 2014-04)
      We show that there exists an infinite word over the alphabet {0,1,3,4} containing no three consecutive blocks of the same size and the same sum. This answers an open problem of Pirillo and Varricchio from1994.
    • Binary Words Avoiding xxRx and Strongly Unimodal Sequences 

      Currie, James D.; Rampersad, Narad (2015-09-14)
      In previous work, Currie and Rampersad showed that the growth of the number of binary words avoiding the pattern xxxR was intermediate between polynomial and exponential. We now show that the same result holds for the ...
    • Binary Words Containing Infinitely Many Overlaps 

      Currie, James D.; Rampersad, Narad; Shallit, Jeffrey (The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2006-09-22)
      We characterize the squares occurring in infinite overlap-free binary words and construct various α power-free binary words containing infinitely many overlaps.
    • The Brachistochrone Problem: Mathematics for a Broad Audience via a Large Context Problem 

      Babb, Jeff; Currie, James (Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics & Information Age Publishing, 2008)
      Large context problems (LCP) are useful in teaching the history of science. In this article we consider the brachistochrone problem in a context stretching from Euclid through the Bernoullis. We highlight a variety of ...
    • A Characterization of Fractionally Well-Covered Graphs 

      Currie, James; Nowakowski, Richard (Ars Combinatoria, 1991)
      A graph is called well-covered if every maximal independent set has the same size. One generalization of independent sets in graphs is that of a fractional cover -- attach nonnegative weights to the vertices and require ...
    • Characterization of the lengths of binary circular words containing no squares other than 00, 11, and 0101 

      Currie, James D.; Johnson, Jesse T. (2020-05-19)
      We characterize exactly the lengths of binary circular words containing no squares other than 00, 11, and 0101.
    • Class Numbers and Biquadratic Reciprocity 

      Williams, Kenneth S.; Currie, James D. (Cambridge University Press, 1982)
    • Combinatorics and Algorithmics of Strings 

      Crochemore, Maxime; Currie, James D.; Kucherov, Gregory; Nowotka, Dirk (Dagstuhl Publishing, 2014-03-09)
      Strings (aka sequences or words) form the most basic and natural data structure. They occur whenever information is electronically transmitted (as bit streams), when natural language text is spoken or written down (as words ...
    • The Complexity of the Simplex Algorithm 

      Currie, James (Carleton UniversityCarleton University, 1984-08)
      The thesis begins by giving background in linear programming and Simplex methods. Topics covered include the duality theorem, Lemke's algorithm, and the pathological programs of Klee-Minty. Because of the bad behaviour ...
    • Counting endomorphisms of crown-like orders 

      Currie, James D.; Visentin, Terry I. (Springer, 2002-12)
      The authors introduce the notion of crown-like orders and introduce powerful tools for counting the endomorphisms of orders of this type.
    • Cubefree words with many squares 

      Currie, James D.; Rampersad, Narad (Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 2014-05-13)
      We construct infinite cubefree binary words containing exponentially many distinct squares of length n . We also show that for every positive integer n , there is a cubefree binary square of length 2n.
    • Dejean's conjecture holds for n ≥ 27 

      Currie, James; Rampersad, Narad (EDP Sciences, 2009)
      We show that Dejean’s conjecture holds for n ≥ 27. This brings the final resolution of the conjecture by the approach of Moulin Ollagnier within range of the computationally feasible.
    • A direct proof of a result of Thue 

      Currie, James D. (Utilitas Mathematica, 1984)
    • Extremal Infinite Overlap-Free Binary Words 

      Allouche, Jean-Paul; Currie, James D.; Shallit, Jeffrey (The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 1998-05-03)
      Let t be the infinite fixed point, starting with 1, of the morphism μ:0→01, 1→10. An infinite word over {0,1} is said to be overlap-free if it contains no factor of the form axaxa, where a∈{0,1} and x∈{0,1}∗. We prove that ...
    • Extremal words in morphic subshifts 

      Zamboni, Luca Q.; Saari, Kalle; Rampersad, Narad; Currie, James D. (Elsevier, 2014-01-22)
      Given an infinite word x over an alphabet A, a letter b occurring in x, and a total order \sigma on A, we call the smallest word with respect to \sigma starting with b in the shift orbit closure of x an extremal word of ...