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We introduce a class of sets of words which is a natural common generalization of Sturmian sets and of interval exchange sets. This class of sets consists of the uniformly recurrent tree sets, where the tree sets are defined by a condition on the possible extensions of bispecial factors. We prove that this class is closed under maximal bifix decoding. The proof uses the fact that the class is also closed under decoding with respect to return words.
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We prove new results concerning the relation between bifix codes, episturmian words and subgroups offree groups. We study bifix codes in factorial sets of words. We generalize most properties of ordinary maximal bifix codes to bifix codes maximal in a recurrent set $F$ of words ($F$-maximal bifix codes). In the case of bifix codes contained in Sturmian sets of words, we obtain several new results. Let $F$ be a Sturmian set of words, defined as the set of factors of a strict episturmian word. Our results express the fact that an $F$-maximal bifix code of degree $d$ behaves just as the set of words of $F$ of length $d$. An $F$-maximal bifix code of degree $d$ in a Sturmian set of words on an alphabet with $k$ letters has $(k-1)d+1$ elements. This generalizes the fact that a Sturmian set contains $(k-1)d+1$ words of length $d$. Moreover, given an infinite word $x$, if there is a finite maximal bifix code $X$ of degree $d$ such that $x$ has at most $d$ factors of length $d$ in $X$, then $x$ is ultimately periodic. Our main result states that any $F$-maximal bifix code of degree $d$ on the alphabet $A$ is the basis of a subgroup of index $d$ of the free group on~$A$.
We investigate the relation between bifix codes and interval exchange transformations. We prove that the class of natural codings of regular interval echange transformations is closed under maximal bifix decoding.
We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the group of a rational maximal bifix code $Z$ to be isomorphic with the $F$-group of $Zcap F$, when $F$ is recurrent and $Zcap F$ is rational. The case where $F$ is uniformly recurrent, which is known to imply the finiteness of $Zcap F$, receives special attention. The proofs are done by exploring the connections with the structure of the free profinite monoid over the alphabet of $F$.
Rudolph (1967) introduced one-step majority logic decoding for linear codes derived from combinatorial designs. The decoder is easily realizable in hardware and requires that the dual code has to contain the blocks of so called geometric designs as codewords. Peterson and Weldon (1972) extended Rudolphs algorithm to a two-step majority logic decoder correcting the same number of errors than Reeds celebrated multi-step majority logic decoder. Here, we study the codes from subspace designs. It turns out that these codes have the same majority logic decoding capability as the codes from geometric designs, but their majority logic decoding complexity is sometimes drastically improved.
The rank of a graph is defined to be the rank of its adjacency matrix. A graph is called reduced if it has no isolated vertices and no two vertices with the same set of neighbors. A reduced graph $G$ is said to be maximal if any reduced graph containing $G$ as a proper induced subgraph has a higher rank. The main intent of this paper is to present some results on maximal graphs. First, we introduce a characterization of maximal trees (a reduced tree is a maximal tree if it is not a proper subtree of a reduced tree with the same rank). Next, we give a near-complete characterization of maximal `generalized friendship graphs. Finally, we present an enumeration of all maximal graphs with ranks $8$ and $9$. The ranks up to $7$ were already done by Lepovic (1990), Ellingham (1993), and Lazic (2010).
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