The Smallest Automaton Recognizing the Subwords of a Text

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Summary

It is demonstrated that the smallest partial DFA for the set of all subwords of a given word w, Iwl>2, has at most 21w(-2 states and 3(wl-4 transition edges, independently of the alphabet size).

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Published
1985-01-01
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Alphabet, Combinatorics, Word (group theory), Mathematics, Deterministic finite automaton

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