Jeffrey Shallit·2023-01-27·via math.CO updates on arXiv.org
We prove a 2018 conjecture of Krawchuk and Rampersad on the extremal behavior of $c(n)$, where $c(n)$ counts the number of length-$n$ factors of the Thue-Morse word $\mathbf{t}$, up to cyclic rotation.