Random words in free groups, non-crossing matchings and RNA secondary structures
Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics(2022)
摘要
Consider a random word X^n=(X_1,… ,X_n) in an alphabet consisting of 4 letters, with the letters viewed either as A , U , G and C (i.e., nucleotides in an RNA sequence) or α , α̅ , β and β̅ (i.e., generators of the free group ⟨α ,β⟩ and their inverses). We show that the expected fraction ρ (n) of unpaired bases in an optimal RNA secondary structure (with only Watson-Crick bonds and no pseudo-knots) converges to a constant λ _2 with 0<λ _2<1 as n→∞ . Thus, a positive proportion of the bases of a random RNA string do not form hydrogen bonds. We do not know the exact value of λ _2 , but we derive upper and lower bounds for it. In terms of free groups, ρ (n) is the ratio of the length of the shortest word representing X in the generating set consisting of conjugates of generators and their inverses to the word length of X with respect to the standard generators and their inverses. Thus for a typical word the word length in the (infinite) generating set consisting of the conjugates of standard generators grows linearly with the word length in the standard generators. In fact, we show that a similar result holds for all non-abelian finitely generated free groups ⟨α _1,… ,α _k⟩ , k≥ 2 .
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RNA secondary structure,Noncrossing matchings,Non-abelian free groups,Conjuacy-invariant norms
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