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Automatic sequences and formal algebraic series

Author: Jean-Paul ALLOUCHE

Publication date: October 10, 2005

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4. Christol's theorem

In this section, we will show Christol's theorem, which states the equivalence between the algebraicity of a formal series with coefficients in a finite field and the automaticity of the sequence of its coefficients: in other words, on a finite field, a combinatorial property of the sequence of coefficients of a formal series (the fact of being generated by a finite automaton) allows us to detect the algebraic character of this formal series.

Theorem 2. Let q = p a , with p prime and a integer

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