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Pattern Matching in Set Partitions is NP-Complete

Combinatorics 2020-09-02 v1

Abstract

In this note we show that pattern matching in permutations is polynomial time reducible to pattern matching in set partitions. In particular, pattern matching in set partitions is NP-Complete.

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@article{arxiv.2009.00122,
  title  = {Pattern Matching in Set Partitions is NP-Complete},
  author = {Thomas Grubb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00122},
  year   = {2020}
}

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