Formal inverses of the generalized Thue-Morse sequences and variations of the Rudin-Shapiro sequence.

A formal inverse of a given automatic sequence (the sequence of coefficients of the composition inverse of its associated formal power series) is also automatic. The comparison of properties of the original sequence and its formal inverse is an interesting problem. Such an analysis has been done before for the Thue-Morse sequence. In this paper, we describe arithmetic properties of formal inverses of the generalized Thue-Morse sequences and formal inverses of two modifications of the Rudin-Shapiro sequence. In each case, we give the recurrence relations and the automaton, then we analyze the lengths of factors consisting of identical letters as well as the frequencies of letters. We also compare the obtained results with the original sequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]