%0 Journal Article
%T A new measure of asymmetry of binary words
%A Alex Ravsky
%J Mathematics
%D 2010
%I arXiv
%X A binary word is symmetric if it is a palindrome or an antipalindrome. We define a new measure of asymmetry of a binary word equal to the minimal number of letters of the word whose deleting from the word yields a symmetric word and obtain upper and lower estimations of this measure.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1279v1