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We revisit classic string problems considered in the area of parameterized complexity, and study them through the lens of dynamic data structures. That is, instead of asking for a static algorithm that solves the given instance efficiently,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jędrzej Olkowski , Michał Pilipczuk , Mateusz Rychlicki , Karol Węgrzycki , Anna Zych-Pawlewicz

Calculating the length of a longest common subsequence (LCS) of two strings $A$ and $B$ of length $n$ and $m$ is a classic research topic, with many worst-case oriented results known. We present two algorithms for LCS length calculation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Szymon Grabowski

The constrained LCS problem asks one to find a longest common subsequence of two input strings $A$ and $B$ with some constraints. The STR-IC-LCS problem is a variant of the constrained LCS problem, where the solution must include a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Keita Kuboi , Yuta Fujishige , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

In this paper we introduce a new family of string processing problems. We are given two or more strings and we are asked to compute a factor common to all strings that preserves a specific property and has maximal length. Here we consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Lorraine A. K Ayad , Giulia Bernardini , Roberto Grossi , Costas S. Iliopoulos , Nadia Pisanti , Solon P. Pissis , Giovanna Rosone

Detecting and counting copies of permutation patterns are fundamental algorithmic problems, with applications in the analysis of rankings, nonparametric statistics, and property testing tasks such as independence and quasirandomness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Michal Opler

We give a sublinear quantum algorithm for the longest common substring (LCS) problem on the run-length encoded (RLE) inputs, under the assumption that the prefix-sums of the runs are given. Our algorithm costs $\tilde{O}(n^{5/6})\cdot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Tzu-Ching Lee , Han-Hsuan Lin

A border of a string is a non-empty proper prefix of the string that is also a suffix. A string is unbordered if it has no border. The longest unbordered factor is a fundamental notion in stringology, closely related to string periodicity.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shoma Sekizaki , Takuya Mieno

Palindromes are important objects in strings which have been extensively studied from combinatorial, algorithmic, and bioinformatics points of views. It is known that the length of the longest palindromic substrings (LPSs) of a given string…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mitsuru Funakoshi , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

The problem of finding longest common subsequence (LCS) is one of the fundamental problems in computer science, which finds application in fields such as computational biology, text processing, information retrieval, data compression etc.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Amey Bhangale , Diptarka Chakraborty , Rajendra Kumar

The approximate string matching is a fundamental and recurrent problem that arises in most computer science fields. This problem can be defined as follows: Let $D=\{x_1,x_2,\ldots x_d\}$ be a set of $d$ words defined on an alphabet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Ibrahim Chegrane

We revisit the problem of longest common property preserving substring queries introduced by~Ayad et al. (SPIRE 2018, arXiv 2018). We consider a generalized and unified on-line setting, where we are given a set $X$ of $k$ strings of total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Kazuki Kai , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda , Tomasz Kociumaka

Given a string $T$ with length $n$ whose characters are drawn from an ordered alphabet of size $\sigma$, its longest Lyndon subsequence is a longest subsequence of $T$ that is a Lyndon word. We propose algorithms for finding such a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Hideo Bannai , Tomohiro I , Tomasz Kociumaka , Dominik Köppl , Simon J. Puglisi

We consider the approximate pattern matching problem under edit distance. In this problem we are given a pattern $P$ of length $w$ and a text $T$ of length $n$ over some alphabet $\Sigma$, and a positive integer $k$. The goal is to find all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das , Michal Koucky

The Longest Common Increasing Subsequence problem (LCIS) is a natural variant of the celebrated Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem. For LCIS, as well as for LCS, there is an $O(n^2)$-time algorithm and a SETH-based conditional lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Lech Duraj

Given strings $P$ and $Q$ the (exact) string matching problem is to find all positions of substrings in $Q$ matching $P$. The classical Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm [SIAM J. Comput., 1977] solves the string matching problem in linear time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-08 Philip Bille

Let us call a sequence of numbers heapable if they can be sequentially inserted to form a binary tree with the heap property, where each insertion subsequent to the first occurs at a leaf of the tree, i.e. below a previously placed number.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-15 John Byers , Brent Heeringa , Michael Mitzenmacher , Georgios Zervas

In the classical longest palindromic substring (LPS) problem, we are given a string $S$ of length $n$, and the task is to output a longest palindromic substring in $S$. Gilbert, Hajiaghayi, Saleh, and Seddighin [SPAA 2023] showed how to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Solon P. Pissis

We study the problem of finding monotone subsequences in an array from the viewpoint of sublinear algorithms. For fixed $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $\varepsilon > 0$, we show that the non-adaptive query complexity of finding a length-$k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Clément L. Canonne , Shoham Letzter , Erik Waingarten

We address a question and a conjecture on the expected length of the longest common subsequences of two i.i.d.$\ $random permutations of $[n]:=\{1,2,...,n\}$. The question is resolved by showing that the minimal expectation is not attained…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Christian Houdré , Chen Xu

This paper investigates the number of quantum queries made to solve the problem of reconstructing an unknown string from its substrings in a certain query model. More concretely, the goal of the problem is to identify an unknown string $S$…