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Factorizing a String into Squares in Linear Time

Authors Yoshiaki Matsuoka, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai, Masayuki Takeda, Florin Manea

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  • Runs
  • Factorization of Strings

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Abstract

A square factorization of a string w is a factorization of w in which each factor is a square. Dumitran et al. [SPIRE 2015, pp. 54-66] showed how to find a square factorization of a given string of length n in O(n log n) time, and they posed a question whether it can be done in O(n) time. In this paper, we answer their question positively, showing an O(n)-time algorithm for square factorization in the standard word RAM model with machine word size omega = Omega(log n). We also show an O(n + (n log^2 n) / omega)-time (respectively, O(n log n)-time) algorithm to find a square factorization which contains the maximum (respectively, minimum) number of squares.

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Yoshiaki Matsuoka, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai, Masayuki Takeda, and Florin Manea. Factorizing a String into Squares in Linear Time. In 27th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 54, pp. 27:1-27:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2016.27

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Yoshiaki Matsuoka
Shunsuke Inenaga
Hideo Bannai
Masayuki Takeda
Florin Manea

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