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Finding an Optimal Alphabet Ordering for Lyndon Factorization Is Hard

Authors Daniel Gibney , Sharma V. Thankachan

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  • Theory of computation → Problems, reductions and completeness
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  • Lyndon Factorization
  • String Algorithms
  • Burrows-Wheeler Transform

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Abstract

This work establishes several strong hardness results on the problem of finding an ordering on a string’s alphabet that either minimizes or maximizes the number of factors in that string’s Lyndon factorization. In doing so, we demonstrate that these ordering problems are sufficiently complex to model a wide variety of ordering constraint satisfaction problems (OCSPs). Based on this, we prove that (i) the decision versions of both the minimization and maximization problems are NP-complete, (ii) for both the minimization and maximization problems there does not exist a constant approximation algorithm running in polynomial time under the Unique Game Conjecture and (iii) there does not exist an algorithm to solve the minimization problem in time poly(|T|) ⋅ 2^o(σlog σ) for a string T over an alphabet of size σ under the Exponential Time Hypothesis (essentially the brute force approach of trying every alphabet order is hard to improve significantly).

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Daniel Gibney and Sharma V. Thankachan. Finding an Optimal Alphabet Ordering for Lyndon Factorization Is Hard. In 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 187, pp. 35:1-35:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.35

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Daniel Gibney
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Sharma V. Thankachan
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

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Supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under CCF-1703489.

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