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International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata

CIAA 2015: Implementation and Application of Automata pp 238–249Cite as

State Complexity of Prefix Distance

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The prefix distance between strings x and y is the number of symbol occurrences in the strings that do not belong to the longest common prefix of x and y. The suffix and the substring distance are defined analogously in terms of the longest common suffix and longest common substring, respectively, of two strings. We show that the set of strings within prefix distance k from an n state DFA (deterministic finite automaton) language can be recognized by a DFA with \((k+1) \cdot n - \frac{k(k+1)}{2}\) states and this number of states is needed in the worst case. Also we give tight bounds for the nondeterministic state complexity of the set of strings within prefix, suffix or substring distance k from a regular language.

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  1. School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada

    Timothy Ng, David Rappaport & Kai Salomaa

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Ng, T., Rappaport, D., Salomaa, K. (2015). State Complexity of Prefix Distance. In: Drewes, F. (eds) Implementation and Application of Automata. CIAA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9223. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22360-5_20

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