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Linear Time Runs Over General Ordered Alphabets

Authors Jonas Ellert , Johannes Fischer

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Jonas Ellert
  • Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Johannes Fischer
  • Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

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Jonas Ellert and Johannes Fischer. Linear Time Runs Over General Ordered Alphabets. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 63:1-63:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.63

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A run in a string is a maximal periodic substring. For example, the string bananatree contains the runs anana = (an)^{5/2} and ee = e². There are less than n runs in any length-n string, and computing all runs for a string over a linearly-sortable alphabet takes 𝒪(n) time (Bannai et al., SIAM J. Comput. 2017). Kosolobov conjectured that there also exists a linear time runs algorithm for general ordered alphabets (Inf. Process. Lett. 2016). The conjecture was almost proven by Crochemore et al., who presented an 𝒪(nα(n)) time algorithm (where α(n) is the extremely slowly growing inverse Ackermann function). We show how to achieve 𝒪(n) time by exploiting combinatorial properties of the Lyndon array, thus proving Kosolobov’s conjecture. This also positively answers the at least 29-year-old question whether square-freeness can be tested in linear time over general ordered alphabets (Breslauer, PhD thesis, Columbia University 1992).

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  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • String algorithms
  • Lyndon array
  • runs
  • squares
  • longest common extension
  • general ordered alphabets
  • combinatorics on words

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