Testing avoidability on sets of partial words is hard

DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2008.11.011zbMath1162.68028OpenAlexW2108981141MaRDI QIDQ1006080

Raphaël M. Jungers, Justin Palumbo, Francine Blanchet-Sadri

Publication date: 17 March 2009

Published in: Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.11.011

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorics on wordsNP-hard problemspartial wordsunavoidable sets3SAT problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorics on words (68R15) Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.) (68Q17)

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