On generalised Rudin-Shapiro sequences
By Thomas Stoll
We introduce a family of block-additive automatic sequences, that are obtained by allocating a weight to each couple of digits, and defining the nth term of the sequence as being the total weight of the integer n written in base k. Under an additional combinatorial difference condition on the weight function, these sequences can be interpreted as generalised Rudin–Shapiro sequences. We prove that these sequences have the same two-term correlations as sequences of symbols chosen uniformly and independently at random. The speed of convergence is independent of the prime factor decomposition of k. This extends work by E. Grant, J. Shallit, T. Stoll, and by P.-A. Tahay.