@InProceedings{saarela:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.140, author = {Saarela, Aleksi}, title = {{Hardness Results for Constant-Free Pattern Languages and Word Equations}}, booktitle = {47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)}, pages = {140:1--140:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-138-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {168}, editor = {Czumaj, Artur and Dawar, Anuj and Merelli, Emanuela}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.140}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-125472}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.140}, annote = {Keywords: Combinatorics on words, pattern language, word equation} }