,
Ritu Kundu
,
Manal Mohamed
,
Solon P. Pissis
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
A border u of a word w is a proper factor of w occurring both as a prefix and as a suffix. The maximal unbordered factor of w is the longest factor of w which does not have a border. Here an O(n log n)-time with high probability (or O(n log n log^2 log n)-time deterministic) algorithm to compute the Longest Unbordered Factor Array of w for general alphabets is presented, where n is the length of w. This array specifies the length of the maximal unbordered factor starting at each position of w. This is a major improvement on the running time of the currently best worst-case algorithm working in O(n^{1.5}) time for integer alphabets [Gawrychowski et al., 2015].
@InProceedings{kociumaka_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.70,
author = {Kociumaka, Tomasz and Kundu, Ritu and Mohamed, Manal and Pissis, Solon P.},
title = {{Longest Unbordered Factor in Quasilinear Time}},
booktitle = {29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)},
pages = {70:1--70:13},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-094-1},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2018},
volume = {123},
editor = {Hsu, Wen-Lian and Lee, Der-Tsai and Liao, Chung-Shou},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.70},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-100184},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.70},
annote = {Keywords: longest unbordered factor, factorisation, period, border, strings}
}