Extending Dekking’s Construction of an Infinite Binary Word Avoiding Abelian 4-Powers

We construct an infinite binary word with critical exponent 3 that avoids abelian 4-powers. Our method gives an algorithm to determine if certain types of morphic sequences avoid additive powers. We also show that there are (1. 172ⁿ) binary words of length n that avoid abelian 4-powers, which improves on previous estimates.