@InProceedings{day_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.44, author = {Day, Joel D. and Manea, Florin and Nowotka, Dirk}, title = {{Upper Bounds on the Length of Minimal Solutions to Certain Quadratic Word Equations}}, booktitle = {44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)}, pages = {44:1--44:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-117-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {138}, editor = {Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen, Joost-Pieter}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.44}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109889}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.44}, annote = {Keywords: Quadratic Word Equations, Length Upper Bounds, NP, Unavoidable Patterns} }