How many runs can a string contain?

In 2000 Kolpakov and Kucherov showed that the maximum number ρ(n) of runs in any string x[1..n] is O(n), but their proof was nonconstructive and provided no specific constant of proportionality. At the same time, they presented experimental data to prompt the conjecture: ρ(n)<n. Recently, Rytter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Puglisi, S., Simpson, Jamie, Smyth, William
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47398