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Polypodic codes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2002

Symeon Bozapalidis
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Olympia Louscou–Bozapalidou
Affiliation:
Posidonos 7, Nea Krini, 55132 Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Abstract

Word and tree codes are studied in a common framework, that of polypodes which are sets endowed with a substitution like operation. Many examples are given and basic properties are examined. The code decomposition theorem is valid in this general setup.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2002

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