On Repetition Thresholds of Caterpillars and Trees of Bounded Degree
Borut Lužar, Pascal Ochem, Alexandre Pinlou · The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics · 2018
The repetition threshold is the smallest real number $\alpha$ such that there exists an infinite word over a $k$-letter alphabet that avoids repetition of exponent strictly greater than $\alpha$. This notion can be generalized to graph classes. In this paper, we completely determine the repetition thresholds for caterpillars and caterpillars of maximum degree $3$. Additionally, we present bounds for the repetition thresholds of trees with bounded maximum degrees.