PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Mutual Borders and OverlapsExport this event to calendar

Thursday, June 30, 2022 — 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Daniel Gabric, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Shallit

A word is said to be bordered if it contains a non-empty proper prefix that is also a suffix. We can naturally extend this definition to pairs of non-empty words. A pair of words (u,v) is said to be mutually bordered if there exists a word that is a non-empty proper prefix of u and suffix of v, and there exists a word that is a non-empty proper suffix of u and prefix of v. In other words, (u,v) is mutually bordered if u overlaps v and v overlaps u. We give a recurrence for the number of mutually bordered pairs of words. Furthermore, we show that, asymptotically, there are c · k2n mutually bordered words of length-n over a k-letter alphabet, where c is a constant. Finally, we show that the expected shortest overlap between pairs of words is bounded above by a constant.


To join this PhD seminar on Zoom, please go to https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/97749736516.

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200 University Avenue West

Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
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