Counting and verifying maximal palindromes

Tomohiro I, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai, Masayuki Takeda

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Abstract

A palindrome is a symmetric string that reads the same forward and backward. Let pals(w) denote the set of maximal palindromes of a string w in which each palindrome is represented by a pair (c, r), where c is the center and r is the radius of the palindrome. We say that two strings w and z are pal-distinct if pals(w) ≠ pals(z). Firstly, we describe the number of pal-distinct strings, and show that we can enumerate all pal-distinct strings in time linear in the output size, for alphabets of size at most 3. These results follow from a close relationship between maximal palindromes and parameterized matching. Secondly, we present a linear time algorithm which finds a string w such that pals(w) is identical to a given set of maximal palindromes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationString Processing and Information Retrieval - 17th International Symposium, SPIRE 2010, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages135-146
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3642163203, 9783642163203
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6393
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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