A new approach to the periodicity lemma on strings with holes

We first give an elementary proof of the periodicity lemma for strings containing one hole (variously called a "wild card", a "don't-care" or an "indeterminate letter" in the literature). The proof is modelled on Euclid's algorithm for the greatest common divi...

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Main Authors: Smyth, Bill, Wang, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39052