Repetition-free longest common subsequence

  • Authors:
  • Said S. Adi;Marília D. V. Braga;Cristina G. Fernandes;Carlos E. Ferreira;Fábio Viduani Martinez;Marie-France Sagot;Marco A. Stefanes;Christian Tjandraatmadja;Yoshiko Wakabayashi

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil;Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France;Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil;Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil;Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France;Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study the following problem. Given two sequences x and y over a finite alphabet, find a repetition-free longest common subsequence of x and y. We show several algorithmic results, a computational complexity result, and we describe a preliminary experimental study based on the proposed algorithms. We also show that this problem is APX-hard.