@InProceedings{crochemore_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2008.1344, author = {Crochemore, Maxime and Ilie, Lucian}, title = {{Understanding Maximal Repetitions in Strings}}, booktitle = {25th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science}, pages = {11--16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-939897-06-4}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2008}, volume = {1}, editor = {Albers, Susanne and Weil, Pascal}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2008.1344}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-13442}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2008.1344}, annote = {Keywords: Combinatorics on words, repetitions in strings, runs, maximal repetitions, maximal periodicities, sum of exponents} }