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Time-Space Tradeoffs for Finding a Long Common Substring

Authors Stav Ben-Nun, Shay Golan , Tomasz Kociumaka , Matan Kraus

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  • Theory of computation → Pattern matching
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  • longest common substring
  • time-space tradeoff
  • local consistency
  • periodicity

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Abstract

We consider the problem of finding, given two documents of total length n, a longest string occurring as a substring of both documents. This problem, known as the Longest Common Substring (LCS) problem, has a classic 𝒪(n)-time solution dating back to the discovery of suffix trees (Weiner, 1973) and their efficient construction for integer alphabets (Farach-Colton, 1997). However, these solutions require Θ(n) space, which is prohibitive in many applications. To address this issue, Starikovskaya and Vildhøj (CPM 2013) showed that for n^{2/3} ≤ s ≤ n, the LCS problem can be solved in 𝒪(s) space and 𝒪̃(n²/s) time. Kociumaka et al. (ESA 2014) generalized this tradeoff to 1 ≤ s ≤ n, thus providing a smooth time-space tradeoff from constant to linear space. In this paper, we obtain a significant speed-up for instances where the length L of the sought LCS is large. For 1 ≤ s ≤ n, we show that the LCS problem can be solved in 𝒪(s) space and 𝒪̃(n²/(L⋅s) +n) time. The result is based on techniques originating from the LCS with Mismatches problem (Flouri et al., 2015; Charalampopoulos et al., CPM 2018), on space-efficient locally consistent parsing (Birenzwige et al., SODA 2020), and on the structure of maximal repetitions (runs) in the input documents.

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Stav Ben-Nun, Shay Golan, Tomasz Kociumaka, and Matan Kraus. Time-Space Tradeoffs for Finding a Long Common Substring. In 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 161, pp. 5:1-5:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.5

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Stav Ben-Nun
  • Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Shay Golan
  • Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Tomasz Kociumaka
  • Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Matan Kraus
  • Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Funding

Supported by ISF grants no. 1278/16 and 1926/19, a BSF grant no. 2018364, and an ERC grant MPM (no. 683064) under the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.

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