Properties of Closed Meanders

J. Barraud1, A. Panayotopoulos2, P. Tsikouras2
136 Bd. Saint Germain, 75005 Paris, France.
2Dept. of Informatics, University of Pireaus, Karaoli & Dimitriou 80, 18534 Pireaus, Greece.

Abstract

In this paper, various transformations of the set of closed meanders are introduced. Some of these are used in order to partition the above set and to find a representative of each class. Furthermore, each closed meander is separated into shorter ones.