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S�minaire du 5 septembre 2011, * 10h30: Eric Rowland, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.
Regular Sequences.
Regular sequences were introduced by Allouche and Shallit in 1992. Examples appear frequently in number theory, combinatorics, and computer science. In many ways, a regular sequence is analogous to a sequence satisfying a linear recurrence with constant coefficients. The difference is that, in a linear recurrence, a(n) and a(m) are related when n and m are close in the real metric; whereas for a k-regular sequence a(n) and a(m) are related when the base-k representations of n and m are similar. In this talk we will discuss some recent activity in the study of k-regular sequences, and we will examine how the class of k-regular sequences fits into the larger context of integer sequences that arise naturally in combinatorics.

Virginie Collette
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