Justin, J.; Pirillo, G. Repetitivity of semigroups and a result of Cassaigne, Currie, Schaeffer and Shallit. (English) Zbl 1399.68079 Southeast Asian Bull. Math. 41, No. 6, 871-878 (2017). Summary: The recent remarkable result of J. Cassaigne et al. [J. ACM 61, No. 2, Article No. 10, 17 p. (2014; Zbl 1295.68173)] about the existence of an infinite word without three consecutive factors “of the same sum and size” shows the importance of the theory of “repetitive semigroups” in combinatorics on words. This seems to be an occasion to recall the main definitions and results in the theory of repetitivity (which had been presented in Chapter 4 of [M. Lothaire, Combinatorics on words. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1983; Zbl 0514.20045)]). We recall the progress since that time and in the last section we present some applications of the result of Cassaigne et al. [loc. cit.]. In particular, we recall a result we obtained with Stefano Varricchio and the techniques we pioneered with him. MSC: 68R15 Combinatorics on words 20M05 Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems Keywords:repetitive semigroup; uniformely repetitive semigroup; unavoidable regularities Citations:Zbl 1295.68173; Zbl 0514.20045 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. Justin} and \textit{G. Pirillo}, Southeast Asian Bull. Math. 41, No. 6, 871--878 (2017; Zbl 1399.68079)