String matching with simple devices

  • Authors:
  • Holger Petersen

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Stuttgart, FMI, Universitätsstr. 38, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

With the help of a general simulation technique of deterministic finite two-way multi-head automata by automata with blind heads we show O(n^2/logn) to be an upper time bound on string matching. This result is tight by a previously known lower bound.