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Infinite Lyndon words have been introduced in [1], where the authors proved a factorization theorem for infinite words: any infinite word can be written as a non increasing product of Lyndon words, finite and/or infinite. After giving a new characterization of infinite Lyndon words, we concentrate on three well known infinite words and give their factorization. We conclude by giving an application to ω-division of infinite words.
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Melançon, G. (1996). Lyndon factorization of infinite words. In: Puech, C., Reischuk, R. (eds) STACS 96. STACS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60922-9_13
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