Relational codes of words

  • Authors:
  • Vesa Halava;Tero Harju;Tomi Kärki

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Turku Centre for Computer Science, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland;Department of Mathematics and Turku Centre for Computer Science, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland;Department of Mathematics and Turku Centre for Computer Science, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider words, i.e. strings over a finite alphabet together with a similarity relation induced by a compatibility relation on letters. This notion generalizes that of partial words. The theory of codes on combinatorics on words is revisited by defining (R,S)-codes for arbitrary similarity relations R and S. We describe an algorithm to test whether or not a finite set of words is an (R,S)-code. Coding properties of finite sets of words are explored by finding maximal and minimal relations with respect to relational codes.