Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 369, 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)
Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Manal Mohamed, Jakub Radoszewski, Wojciech Rytter, Tomasz Waleń, and Wiktor Zuba. Improved Bounds on the Maximum Number of Distinct Squares in Circular Words. In 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 369, pp. 6:1-6:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)
@InProceedings{charalampopoulos_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2026.6,
author = {Charalampopoulos, Panagiotis and Mohamed, Manal and Radoszewski, Jakub and Rytter, Wojciech and Wale\'{n}, Tomasz and Zuba, Wiktor},
title = {{Improved Bounds on the Maximum Number of Distinct Squares in Circular Words}},
booktitle = {37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)},
pages = {6:1--6:12},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-420-8},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2026},
volume = {369},
editor = {Bille, Philip and Prezza, Nicola},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.6},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259325},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.6},
annote = {Keywords: circular words, squares, repetitions}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 369, 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)
Dominik Köppl and Jannik Olbrich. Hardness Results on Characteristics for Elastic-Degenerate Strings. In 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 369, pp. 14:1-14:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)
@InProceedings{koppl_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2026.14,
author = {K\"{o}ppl, Dominik and Olbrich, Jannik},
title = {{Hardness Results on Characteristics for Elastic-Degenerate Strings}},
booktitle = {37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)},
pages = {14:1--14:25},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-420-8},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2026},
volume = {369},
editor = {Bille, Philip and Prezza, Nicola},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.14},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259409},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.14},
annote = {Keywords: Elastic-degenerate strings, NP-hardness, longest common factor, minimal unique substring, minimal absent word, anti-power, longest previous factor}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 369, 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)
Arkadiusz Czarkowski. Improved Bounds on the Sum of Exponents of Runs in a String. In 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 369, pp. 23:1-23:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)
@InProceedings{czarkowski:LIPIcs.CPM.2026.23,
author = {Czarkowski, Arkadiusz},
title = {{Improved Bounds on the Sum of Exponents of Runs in a String}},
booktitle = {37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)},
pages = {23:1--23:18},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-420-8},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2026},
volume = {369},
editor = {Bille, Philip and Prezza, Nicola},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.23},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259494},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.23},
annote = {Keywords: strings, runs, sum of exponents of runs, Lyndon words, L-roots, maximal repetitions, combinatorics on words}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 370, 20th Scandinavian Symposium on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2026)
Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Manal Mohamed, Solon P. Pissis, Hilde Verbeek, and Wiktor Zuba. Faster Algorithms for Shortest Unique or Absent Substrings. In 20th Scandinavian Symposium on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 370, pp. 13:1-13:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)
@InProceedings{charalampopoulos_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2026.13,
author = {Charalampopoulos, Panagiotis and Mohamed, Manal and Pissis, Solon P. and Verbeek, Hilde and Zuba, Wiktor},
title = {{Faster Algorithms for Shortest Unique or Absent Substrings}},
booktitle = {20th Scandinavian Symposium on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2026)},
pages = {13:1--13:19},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-421-5},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2026},
volume = {370},
editor = {Fraigniaud, Pierre},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2026.13},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-260493},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2026.13},
annote = {Keywords: string algorithms, unique substrings, absent substrings, absent words}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 369, 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)
Shay Golan, Matan Kraus, Ely Porat, and B. Riva Shalom. Exploring the Gap Between LCS and LCStr. In 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 369, pp. 27:1-27:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)
@InProceedings{golan_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2026.27,
author = {Golan, Shay and Kraus, Matan and Porat, Ely and Shalom, B. Riva},
title = {{Exploring the Gap Between LCS and LCStr}},
booktitle = {37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)},
pages = {27:1--27:21},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-420-8},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2026},
volume = {369},
editor = {Bille, Philip and Prezza, Nicola},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.27},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259535},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.27},
annote = {Keywords: Longest Common Subsequence, Longest Common Substring, Conditional Lower Bound}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)
Jonas Ellert and Tomasz Kociumaka. Time-Optimal Construction of String Synchronizing Sets. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 36:1-36:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)
@InProceedings{ellert_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.36,
author = {Ellert, Jonas and Kociumaka, Tomasz},
title = {{Time-Optimal Construction of String Synchronizing Sets}},
booktitle = {43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
pages = {36:1--36:22},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-412-3},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2026},
volume = {364},
editor = {Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.36},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255258},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.36},
annote = {Keywords: synchronizing sets, local consistency, packed strings}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)
Yuto Nakashima, Jakub Radoszewski, and Tomasz Waleń. Fast Computation of k-Runs, Parameterized Squares, and Other Generalised Squares. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 8:1-8:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{nakashima_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.8,
author = {Nakashima, Yuto and Radoszewski, Jakub and Wale\'{n}, Tomasz},
title = {{Fast Computation of k-Runs, Parameterized Squares, and Other Generalised Squares}},
booktitle = {33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
pages = {8:1--8:18},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-395-9},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2025},
volume = {351},
editor = {Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.8},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244768},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.8},
annote = {Keywords: string algorithm, k-mismatch square, parameterized square, order-preserving square, maximum gapped repeat}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)
Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Manal Mohamed, Jakub Radoszewski, Wojciech Rytter, Tomasz Waleń, and Wiktor Zuba. Counting Distinct Square Substrings in Sublinear Time. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 36:1-36:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{charalampopoulos_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.36,
author = {Charalampopoulos, Panagiotis and Mohamed, Manal and Radoszewski, Jakub and Rytter, Wojciech and Wale\'{n}, Tomasz and Zuba, Wiktor},
title = {{Counting Distinct Square Substrings in Sublinear Time}},
booktitle = {50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
pages = {36:1--36:19},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-388-1},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2025},
volume = {345},
editor = {Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.36},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241439},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.36},
annote = {Keywords: square in a string, packed model, run (maximal repetition), Lyndon word}
}
Published in: OASIcs, Volume 132, From Strings to Graphs, and Back Again: A Festschrift for Roberto Grossi's 60th Birthday (2025)
Nicola Rizzo, Veli Mäkinen, and Nadia Pisanti. On the Construction of Elastic Degenerate Strings. In From Strings to Graphs, and Back Again: A Festschrift for Roberto Grossi's 60th Birthday. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 132, pp. 2:1-2:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{rizzo_et_al:OASIcs.Grossi.2,
author = {Rizzo, Nicola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli and Pisanti, Nadia},
title = {{On the Construction of Elastic Degenerate Strings}},
booktitle = {From Strings to Graphs, and Back Again: A Festschrift for Roberto Grossi's 60th Birthday},
pages = {2:1--2:13},
series = {Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-391-1},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2025},
volume = {132},
editor = {Conte, Alessio and Marino, Andrea and Rosone, Giovanna and Vitter, Jeffrey Scott},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Grossi.2},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-238014},
doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.Grossi.2},
annote = {Keywords: multiple sequence alignment, pattern matching, data structures, segmentation algorithms, founder reconstruction, dynamic programming, semi-dynamic range minimum queries, positional Burrows-Wheeler transform}
}
Published in: OASIcs, Volume 131, The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday (2025)
Davide Cenzato, Zsuzsanna Lipták, Nadia Pisanti, Giovanna Rosone, and Marinella Sciortino. BWT for String Collections. In The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 131, pp. 3:1-3:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{cenzato_et_al:OASIcs.Manzini.3,
author = {Cenzato, Davide and Lipt\'{a}k, Zsuzsanna and Pisanti, Nadia and Rosone, Giovanna and Sciortino, Marinella},
title = {{BWT for String Collections}},
booktitle = {The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday},
pages = {3:1--3:29},
series = {Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-390-4},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2025},
volume = {131},
editor = {Ferragina, Paolo and Gagie, Travis and Navarro, Gonzalo},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Manzini.3},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239113},
doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.Manzini.3},
annote = {Keywords: Burrows-Wheeler transform, Extended Burrows-Wheeler transform, compressed text indexes, text compression, string collections, bioinformatics}
}
Published in: OASIcs, Volume 131, The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday (2025)
Wing-Kai Hon, Rahul Shah, and Sharma V. Thankachan. Circular Dictionary Matching Using Extended BWT. In The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 131, pp. 11:1-11:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{hon_et_al:OASIcs.Manzini.11,
author = {Hon, Wing-Kai and Shah, Rahul and Thankachan, Sharma V.},
title = {{Circular Dictionary Matching Using Extended BWT}},
booktitle = {The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday},
pages = {11:1--11:14},
series = {Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-390-4},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2025},
volume = {131},
editor = {Ferragina, Paolo and Gagie, Travis and Navarro, Gonzalo},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Manzini.11},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239195},
doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.Manzini.11},
annote = {Keywords: String algorithms, Burrows-Wheeler transformation, suffix trees, succinct data structures}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 331, 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)
Solon P. Pissis, Jakub Radoszewski, and Wiktor Zuba. Faster Approximate Elastic-Degenerate String Matching - Part A. In 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 331, pp. 28:1-28:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{pissis_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2025.28,
author = {Pissis, Solon P. and Radoszewski, Jakub and Zuba, Wiktor},
title = {{Faster Approximate Elastic-Degenerate String Matching - Part A}},
booktitle = {36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)},
pages = {28:1--28:19},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-369-0},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2025},
volume = {331},
editor = {Bonizzoni, Paola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.28},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231227},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.28},
annote = {Keywords: ED string, approximate string matching, Hamming distance, edit distance}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 331, 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)
Paweł Gawrychowski, Adam Górkiewicz, Pola Marciniak, Solon P. Pissis, and Karol Pokorski. Faster Approximate Elastic-Degenerate String Matching - Part B. In 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 331, pp. 29:1-29:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{gawrychowski_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2025.29,
author = {Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and G\'{o}rkiewicz, Adam and Marciniak, Pola and Pissis, Solon P. and Pokorski, Karol},
title = {{Faster Approximate Elastic-Degenerate String Matching - Part B}},
booktitle = {36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)},
pages = {29:1--29:21},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-369-0},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2025},
volume = {331},
editor = {Bonizzoni, Paola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.29},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231236},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.29},
annote = {Keywords: ED string, approximate pattern matching, Hamming distance, k mismatches}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 331, 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)
Waseem Akram and Takuya Mieno. Sorted Consecutive Occurrence Queries in Substrings. In 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 331, pp. 24:1-24:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{akram_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2025.24,
author = {Akram, Waseem and Mieno, Takuya},
title = {{Sorted Consecutive Occurrence Queries in Substrings}},
booktitle = {36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)},
pages = {24:1--24:15},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-369-0},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2025},
volume = {331},
editor = {Bonizzoni, Paola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.24},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231187},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.24},
annote = {Keywords: string algorithm, consecutive occurrences, suffix tree}
}
Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 331, 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)
Nicola Cotumaccio. Improved Circular Dictionary Matching. In 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 331, pp. 18:1-18:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)
@InProceedings{cotumaccio:LIPIcs.CPM.2025.18,
author = {Cotumaccio, Nicola},
title = {{Improved Circular Dictionary Matching}},
booktitle = {36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)},
pages = {18:1--18:17},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-369-0},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2025},
volume = {331},
editor = {Bonizzoni, Paola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.18},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231122},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.18},
annote = {Keywords: Circular pattern matching, dictionary matching, suffix tree, compressed suffix tree, suffix array, LCP array, Burrows-Wheeler Transform, FM-index}
}