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Subsequences with Gap Constraints: Complexity Bounds for Matching and Analysis Problems

Authors Joel D. Day , Maria Kosche , Florin Manea , Markus L. Schmid

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  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • String algorithms
  • subsequences with gap constraints
  • pattern matching
  • fine-grained complexity
  • conditional lower bounds
  • parameterised complexity

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Abstract

We consider subsequences with gap constraints, i. e., length-k subsequences p that can be embedded into a string w such that the induced gaps (i. e., the factors of w between the positions to which p is mapped to) satisfy given gap constraints gc = (C_1, C_2, …, C_{k-1}); we call p a gc-subsequence of w. In the case where the gap constraints gc are defined by lower and upper length bounds C_i = (L^-_i, L^+_i) ∈ ℕ² and/or regular languages C_i ∈ REG, we prove tight (conditional on the orthogonal vectors (OV) hypothesis) complexity bounds for checking whether a given p is a gc-subsequence of a string w. We also consider the whole set of all gc-subsequences of a string, and investigate the complexity of the universality, equivalence and containment problems for these sets of gc-subsequences.

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Joel D. Day, Maria Kosche, Florin Manea, and Markus L. Schmid. Subsequences with Gap Constraints: Complexity Bounds for Matching and Analysis Problems. In 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 248, pp. 64:1-64:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.64

Author Details

Joel D. Day
  • Loughborough University, UK
Maria Kosche
  • Computer Science Department, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Florin Manea
  • Computer Science Department and CIDAS, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Markus L. Schmid
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Funding

The work of the three authors with German affiliation was supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). Maria Kosche’s work was supported by the project with number 389613931. Florin Manea’s work was supported by the project with number 466789228. Markus L. Schmid’s work was supported by the project with number 416776735.

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