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Complexity of testing morphic primitivity

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2013-10-04 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We analyze the algorithm in [Holub, 2009], which decides whether a given word is a fixed point of a nontrivial morphism. We show that it can be implemented to have complexity in O(mn), where n is the length of the word and m the size of the alphabet.

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@article{arxiv.1207.5690,
  title  = {Complexity of testing morphic primitivity},
  author = {Vojtěch Matocha and Štěpán Holub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5690},
  year   = {2013}
}
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