Data compression: methods and theory
Data compression: methods and theory
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Text algorithms
Algorithms on strings, trees, and sequences: computer science and computational biology
Algorithms on strings, trees, and sequences: computer science and computational biology
Handbook of formal languages, vol. 1
Rotations of periodic strings and short superstrings
Journal of Algorithms
Local periods and propagation of periods in a word
Theoretical Computer Science - Special issue: papers dedicated to the memory of Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
Partial words and a theorem of Fine and Wilf
Theoretical Computer Science
A Space-Economical Suffix Tree Construction Algorithm
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
A fast string searching algorithm
Communications of the ACM
Recurrence and periodicity in infinite words from local periods
Theoretical Computer Science
Partial words and a theorem of Fine and Wilf revisited
Theoretical Computer Science
Theory of Codes
Theoretical Computer Science
A Periodicity Theorem on Words and Applications
MFCS '95 Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
Reconstructing strings from substrings in rounds
FOCS '95 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Local periods and binary partial words: an algorithm
Theoretical Computer Science
Codes, orderings, and partial words
Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Testing primitivity on partial words
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Partial words and the critical factorization theorem revisited
Theoretical Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Discrete Applied Mathematics
STACS'07 Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Theoretical aspects of computer science
Two element unavoidable sets of partial words
DLT'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Developments in language theory
Combinatorial queries and updates on partial words
FCT'09 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Fundamentals of computation theory
Combinatorics on partial word correlations
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
MFCS'06 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
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The study of combinatorics on words, or finite sequences of symbols from a finite alphabet, finds applications in several areas of biology, computer science, mathematics, and physics. Molecular biology, in particular, has stimulated considerable interest in the study of combinatorics on partial words that are sequences that may have a number of "do not know" symbols also called "holes". This paper is devoted to a fundamental result on periods of words, the critical factorization theorem, which states that the period of a word is always locally detectable in at least one position of the word resulting in a corresponding critical factorization. Here, we describe precisely the class of partial words w with one hole for which the weak period is locally detectable in at least one position of w. Our proof provides an algorithm which computes a critical factorization when one exists. A World Wide Web server interface at http://www.uncg.edu/mat/cft/has been established for automated use of the program.