A092782 The ternary tribonacci word; also a Rauzy fractal sequence: fixed point of the morphism 1 -> 12, 2 -> 13, 3 -> 1, starting from a(1) = 1.

1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3

Offset: 1

Author

Philippe Deléham, Apr 23 2004

Keywords

• easy
• nonn

Comments

See A080843 for the {0,1,2} version, which in a sense is the most basic version.

See also A103269 for another version with further references and comments.

Also called a tribonacci word. In the limit the ratios #1's : #2's : #3's are t^2 : t : 1 where t is the tribonacci constant 1.839286755... (A058265). - Frank M Jackson, Mar 29 2018

a(n)-1 is the number of trailing 0's in the maximal tribonacci representation of n (A352103). - Amiram Eldar, Feb 29 2024

Examples

			From _Joerg Arndt_, Sep 14 2013: (Start)
The first few steps of the substitution are
Start: 1
Maps:
  1 --> 12
  2 --> 13
  3 --> 1
-------------
0:   (#=1)
  1
1:   (#=2)
  12
2:   (#=4)
  1213
3:   (#=7)
  1213121
4:   (#=13)
  1213121121312
5:   (#=24)
  121312112131212131211213
6:   (#=44)
  12131211213121213121121312131211213121213121
7:   (#=81)
  121312112131212131211213121312112131212131211213121121312121312112131213121121312
(End)
		

References

• This entry has a fairly complete list of references and links concerning the ternary tribonacci word. - N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 17 2018
• J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, Automatic Sequences, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003, p. 246.
• Michel Rigo, Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems, 2 vols., Wiley, 2014. Mentions this sequence - see "List of Sequences" in Vol. 2.

Links

• N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..19513
• Pierre Arnoux and Edmund Harriss, What is a Rauzy Fractal?, Notices Amer. Math. Soc., 61 (No. 7, 2014), 768-770, also p. 704 and front cover.
• Scott Balchin and Dan Rust, Computations for Symbolic Substitutions, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 20 (2017), Article 17.4.1.
• Elena Barcucci, Luc Belanger and Srecko Brlek, On tribonacci sequences, Fib. Q., 42 (2004), 314-320. See T on page 315.
• Marcy Barge and Jaroslaw Kwapisz, Geometric theory of unimodular Pisot substitutions, Amer. J. Math. 128 (2006), no. 5, 1219--1282. MR2262174 (2007m:37039). See Fig. 18.1. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Aug 06 2014
• Jean Berstel and J. Karhumaki, Combinatorics on words - a tutorial, Bull. EATCS, #79 (2003), pp. 178-228.
• Nataliya Chekhova, Pascal Hubert, and Ali Messaoudi, Propriétés combinatoires, ergodiques et arithmétiques de la substitution de Tribonacci, Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, 13.2 (2001): 371-394.
• David Damanik and Luca Q. Zamboni, Arnoux-Rauzy subshifts: linear recurrence, powers and palindromes, arXiv:math/0208137 [math.CO], 2002.
• Aldo de Luca and Luca Q. Zamboni, On prefixal factorizations of words, arXiv:1505.02309 [math.CO], 2015. See Example 2.
• Aldo de Luca and Luca Q. Zamboni, On prefixal factorizations of words, European Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 52, Part A, 2016, pp. 59-73. See Example 2.
• F. Michel Dekking, Morphisms, Symbolic Sequences, and Their Standard Forms, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 19 (2016), Article 16.1.1.
• F. Michel Dekking, Jeffrey Shallit, and N. J. A. Sloane, Queens in exile: non-attacking queens on infinite chess boards, Electronic J. Combin., 27:1 (2020), #P1.52.
• Eric Duchêne and Michel Rigo, A morphic approach to combinatorial games: the Tribonacci case. RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications, 42, 2008, pp 375-393. doi:10.1051/ita:2007039. [Also available here]
• Jacques Justin and Laurent Vuillon, Return words in Sturmian and episturmian words, RAIRO-Theoretical Informatics and Applications 34.5 (2000): 343-356. See Example on page 345.
• Aayush Rajasekaran, Narad Rampersad, and Jeffrey Shallit, Overpals, Underlaps, and Underpals, In: Brlek S., Dolce F., Reutenauer C., Vandomme É. (eds) Combinatorics on Words, WORDS 2017, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10432.
• Gérard Rauzy, Nombres algébriques et substitutions, Bull. Soc. Math. France 110.2 (1982): 147-178. See page 148.
• Victor F. Sirvent, Semigroups and the self-similar structure of the flipped tribonacci substitution, Applied Math. Letters, 12 (1999), 25-29. [Contains further related references.]
• Victor F. Sirvent, The common dynamics of the Tribonacci substitutions, Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society-Simon Stevin 7.4 (2000): 571-582.
• Bo Tan and Zhi-Ying Wen, Some properties of the Tribonacci sequence, European Journal of Combinatorics, 28 (2007) 1703-1719.
• Ondřej Turek, Abelian Complexity Function of the Tribonacci Word, J. Int. Seq. 18 (2015) Article 15.3.4.
• Index entries for sequences that are fixed points of mappings.

Crossrefs

Cf. A003144, A003145, A003146, A100619, A103269, A073058, A245553, A245554, A105083, A352103.

See A080843 for a {0,1,2} version.

First differences: A317950.

Programs

Maple

f(1):= (1, 2): f(2):= (1, 3): f(3):= (1): A:= [1]:
for i from 1 to 16 do A:= map(f, A) od:
A; # 19513 terms of A092782; A103269; from N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 06 2018

Mathematica

Nest[ Flatten[# /. {1 -> {1, 2}, 2 -> {1, 3}, 3 -> 1}] &, {1}, 8] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Mar 04 2005 and updated Apr 29 2018 *)

PARI

w=vector(9,x,[]); w[1]=[1];
for(n=2,9,for(k=1,#w[n-1],m=w[n-1][k];v=[];if(m-1,if(m-2,v=[1],v=[1,3]),v=[1,2]);w[n]=concat(w[n],v)));
w[9] \\ Gerald McGarvey, Dec 18 2009

PARI

strsub(s, vv, off=0)=
{
    my( nl=#vv, r=[], ct=1 );
    while ( ct <= #s,
        r = concat(r, vv[ s[ct] + (1-off) ] );
        ct += 1;
    );
    return( r );
}
t=[1];  for (k=1, 10, t=strsub( t, [[1,2], [1,3], [1]], 1 ) );  t
\\ Joerg Arndt, Sep 14 2013

PARI

A092782_vec(N,s=[[1,2],[1,3],1],A=[1])={while(#AM. F. Hasler, Dec 14 2018

Formula

a(n) = 1 for n in A003144; a(n) = 2 for n in A003145; a(n) = 3 for n in A003146.

a(n) = A080843(n-1) + 1. - Joerg Arndt, Sep 14 2013

Extensions

Additional references and links added by N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 17 2018