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A subquadratic algorithm for the simultaneous conjugacy problem

Data Structures and Algorithms 2020-07-14 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

The dd-Simultaneous Conjugacy problem in the symmetric group SnS_n asks whether there exists a permutation τSn\tau \in S_n such that bj=τ1ajτb_j = \tau^{-1}a_j \tau holds for all j=1,2,,dj = 1,2,\ldots, d, where a1,a2,,ada_1, a_2,\ldots , a_d and b1,b2,,bdb_1, b_2,\ldots , b_d are given sequences of permutations in SnS_n. The time complexity of existing algorithms for solving the problem is O(dn2)O(dn^2). We show that for a given positive integer dd the dd-Simultaneous Conjugacy problem in SnS_n can be solved in o(n2)o(n^2) time.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.05870,
  title  = {A subquadratic algorithm for the simultaneous conjugacy problem},
  author = {Andrej Brodnik and Aleksander Malnič and Rok Požar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.05870},
  year   = {2020}
}