## Lyndon words, permutations and trees.(English)Zbl 1058.68086

From the introduction: A well-known combinatorial construction, that has many applications in Computer Science, maps bijectively permutations in $$S_n$$ onto binary, planary trees, with labels in $$\{1,\dots,n\}$$, increasing from root to leaves. On the other hand, to each Lyndon word a binary, planar, complete tree is associated, with leaves labelled by the letters of the word; again the inverse mapping is the projection. Both constructions lead to bases of the free Lie algebra consisting of the collection of all Lie polynomials defined by Lyndon words. We show that this second construction reduces to the first: indeed, one can associate to each (Lyndon) word a permutation, that we call its suffix standard permutation. This permutation then gives a tree, as in the first construction. This tree, once completed, gives the tree of the Lyndon word, by writing the letters on the leaves.

### MSC:

 68R15 Combinatorics on words 68Q45 Formal languages and automata

### Keywords:

suffix standard permutation
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