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Algebraicity <strong>and</strong> Automaticity<br />

The phenomena we have just now noticed<br />

1 automaticity<br />

2 algebraicity in characteristic p<br />

3 Mahler functional equation<br />

4 regular p-substitutions<br />

are equivalent.<br />

It is a theorem of Giles Christol, Teturo Kamae, Michel Mendès France,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Gérard Rauzy that the Taylor coefficients of a power series defined<br />

over a finite field of characteristic p provide a p-automatic sequence if<br />

<strong>and</strong> only if the power series represents an algebraic function.<br />

Remarks of Loxton <strong>and</strong> mine add the identification with Mahler<br />

functions in characteristic zero.<br />

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