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Discrete Applied Mathematics
Volume 144, Issue 3, 15 December 2004, Pages 237-246
Fun with Algorithms 2
 
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Patterns in words and languages*1

G. CastiglioneE-mail The Corresponding Author, A. RestivoE-mail The Corresponding Author and S. SalemiE-mail The Corresponding Author

Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, University of Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, Palermo 90123, Italy

Received 6 June 2002; 
Revised 11 June 2003; 
accepted 20 November 2003. 
Available online 6 May 2004.

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A word p, over the alphabet of variables E, is a pattern of a word w over A if there exists a non-erasing morphism h from E* to A* such that h(p)=w. If we take E=A, given two words u,vset membership, variantA*, we write uless-than-or-equals, slantv if u is a pattern of v. The restriction of less-than-or-equals, slant to aA*, where A is the binary alphabet {a,b}, is a partial order relation. We introduce, given a word v, the set P(v) of all words u such that uless-than-or-equals, slantv. P(v), with the relation less-than-or-equals, slant, is a poset and it is called the pattern poset of v. The first part of the paper is devoted to investigate the relationships between the structure of the poset P(v) and the combinatorial properties of the word v. In the last section, for a given language L, we consider the language P(L) of all patterns of words in L. The main result of this section shows that, if L is a regular language, then P(L) is a regular language too.

Author Keywords: Pattern; Partial order on words; Formal languages

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Discrete Applied Mathematics
Volume 144, Issue 3, 15 December 2004, Pages 237-246
Fun with Algorithms 2
 
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