Reconstruction of a word from a multiset of its factors

  • Authors:
  • Claribet Piña;Carlos Uzcátegui

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela;Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Let D"k(w) be the multiset containing all factors of w of length k including repetitions. One of the main results is that if D"k(w)=D"k(v) for all k@?@?|w|2@?+1, then w=v. The bound @?|w|2@?+1 is optimal; however we will also show that if D"k(w)=D"k(v) for all k@?@?|w|2@?, then w and v are structurally similar.