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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.3
Maximal Number of Subword Occurrences in a Word

Authors: Wenjie Fang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 302, 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024)

Abstract
We consider the number of occurrences of subwords (non-consecutive sub-sequences) in a given word. We first define the notion of subword entropy of a given word that measures the maximal number of occurrences among all possible subwords. We then give upper and lower bounds of minimal subword entropy for words of fixed length in a fixed alphabet, and also showing that minimal subword entropy per letter has a limit value. A better upper bound of minimal subword entropy for a binary alphabet is then given by looking at certain families of periodic words. We also give some conjectures based on experimental observations.
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Wenjie Fang. Maximal Number of Subword Occurrences in a Word. In 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 302, pp. 3:1-3:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{fang:LIPIcs.AofA.2024.3,
  author =	{Fang, Wenjie},
  title =	{{Maximal Number of Subword Occurrences in a Word}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-329-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{302},
  editor =	{Mailler, C\'{e}cile and Wild, Sebastian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-204387},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Subword occurrence, subword entropy, enumeration, periodic words}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2020.11
Asymptotics of Minimal Deterministic Finite Automata Recognizing a Finite Binary Language

Authors: Andrew Elvey Price, Wenjie Fang, and Michael Wallner

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 159, 31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020)

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We show that the number of minimal deterministic finite automata with n+1 states recognizing a finite binary language grows asymptotically for n → ∞ like Θ(n! 8ⁿ e^{3 a₁ n^{1/3}} n^{7/8}), where a₁ ≈ -2.338 is the largest root of the Airy function. For this purpose, we use a new asymptotic enumeration method proposed by the same authors in a recent preprint (2019). We first derive a new two-parameter recurrence relation for the number of such automata up to a given size. Using this result, we prove by induction tight bounds that are sufficiently accurate for large n to determine the asymptotic form using adapted Netwon polygons.
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Andrew Elvey Price, Wenjie Fang, and Michael Wallner. Asymptotics of Minimal Deterministic Finite Automata Recognizing a Finite Binary Language. In 31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 159, pp. 11:1-11:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{elveyprice_et_al:LIPIcs.AofA.2020.11,
  author =	{Elvey Price, Andrew and Fang, Wenjie and Wallner, Michael},
  title =	{{Asymptotics of Minimal Deterministic Finite Automata Recognizing a Finite Binary Language}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-147-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{159},
  editor =	{Drmota, Michael and Heuberger, Clemens},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2020.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-120419},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2020.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Airy function, asymptotics, directed acyclic graphs, Dyck paths, bijection, stretched exponential, compacted trees, minimal automata, finite languages}
}
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