Ranking Bracelets in Polynomial Time

Authors Duncan Adamson, Vladimir V. Gusev, Igor Potapov, Argyrios Deligkas



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Duncan Adamson
  • Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK
Vladimir V. Gusev
  • Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK
Igor Potapov
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK
Argyrios Deligkas
  • Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

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The authors thank the Leverhulme Trust for funding this research via the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and the reviewers for their helpful comments that improved the quality of the paper.

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Duncan Adamson, Vladimir V. Gusev, Igor Potapov, and Argyrios Deligkas. Ranking Bracelets in Polynomial Time. In 32nd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 191, pp. 4:1-4:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2021.4

Abstract

The main result of the paper is the first polynomial-time algorithm for ranking bracelets. The time-complexity of the algorithm is O(k²⋅ n⁴), where k is the size of the alphabet and n is the length of the considered bracelets. The key part of the algorithm is to compute the rank of any word with respect to the set of bracelets by finding three other ranks: the rank over all necklaces, the rank over palindromic necklaces, and the rank over enclosing apalindromic necklaces. The last two concepts are introduced in this paper. These ranks are key components to our algorithm in order to decompose the problem into parts. Additionally, this ranking procedure is used to build a polynomial-time unranking algorithm.

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  • Mathematics of computing → Combinatorics on words
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  • Bracelets
  • Ranking
  • Necklaces

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