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The Edit Distance to k-Subsequence Universality

Authors Joel D. Day , Pamela Fleischmann , Maria Kosche , Tore Koß , Florin Manea , Stefan Siemer

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Joel D. Day
  • Loughborough University, UK
Pamela Fleischmann
  • Computer Science Department, Universität Kiel, Germany
Maria Kosche
  • Computer Science Department, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Tore Koß
  • Computer Science Department, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Florin Manea
  • Computer Science Department, Universität Göttingen, Germany
  • Campus-Institut Data Science, Göttingen, Germany
Stefan Siemer
  • Computer Science Department, Universität Göttingen, Germany

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The work of the four authors from Göttingen was supported by the DFG-grant 389613931.

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Joel D. Day, Pamela Fleischmann, Maria Kosche, Tore Koß, Florin Manea, and Stefan Siemer. The Edit Distance to k-Subsequence Universality. In 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 187, pp. 25:1-25:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.25

Abstract

A word u is a subsequence of another word w if u can be obtained from w by deleting some of its letters. In the early 1970s, Imre Simon defined the relation ∼_k (called now Simon-Congruence) as follows: two words having exactly the same set of subsequences of length at most k are ∼_k-congruent. This relation was central in defining and analysing piecewise testable languages, but has found many applications in areas such as algorithmic learning theory, databases theory, or computational linguistics. Recently, it was shown that testing whether two words are ∼_k-congruent can be done in optimal linear time. Thus, it is a natural next step to ask, for two words w and u which are not ∼_k-equivalent, what is the minimal number of edit operations that we need to perform on w in order to obtain a word which is ∼_k-equivalent to u.
In this paper, we consider this problem in a setting which seems interesting: when u is a k-subsequence universal word. A word u with alph(u) = Σ is called k-subsequence universal if the set of subsequences of length k of u contains all possible words of length k over Σ. As such, our results are a series of efficient algorithms computing the edit distance from w to the language of k-subsequence universal words.

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  • Theory of computation → Formal languages and automata theory
  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
Keywords
  • Subsequence
  • Scattered factor
  • Subword
  • Universality
  • k-subsequence universality
  • Edit distance
  • Efficient algorithms

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