Characterisation of band bricks over certain string algebras and a variant of perfectly clustering words

Abstract: Generalising a recent work of Dequ^ene et al. on the connection between perfectly clustering words and band bricks over a particular family of gentle algebras, we characterise band bricks over string algebras whose underlying quiver is acyclic in terms of weakly perfectly clustering pairs of words -- a variant of perfectly clustering words. As a consequence, we characterise band semibricks over all such algebras. Furthermore, the combination of our result and a result of Mousavand and Paquette provides an algorithm to determine whether such a string algebra is brick-infinite.