Computing the λ-covers of a string

  • Authors:
  • Qing Guo;Hui Zhang;Costas S. Iliopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China;Department of Computer Science, King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England, United Kingdom;Department of Computer Science, King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Given a string x of length n and an integer constant @l, the @l-Cover Problem is defined to be the identification of all the sets of @l substrings each of equal length that cover x. This problem can be solved by a general algorithm in O(n^2) time for constant alphabet size. We also generalize the @l-Cover Problem, whereby a set of @l substrings of different lengths are considered, which can be computed using the general algorithm in O(n^2) time.