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On the Length of the Minimum Solution of Word Equations in One Variable.

Kensuke Baba, Satoshi Tsuruta, Ayumi Shinohara, Masayuki Takeda

Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2003, 28th International Symposium, MFCS 2003, Bratislava, Slovakia, August 25-29, 2003, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.2747, pp.189-197 (2003), [peer-reviewed]
Event Date: August 25-29, 2003

Abstract / 概要

We show the tight upperbound of the length of the minimum solution of a word equation L=R in one variable, in terms of the differences between the positions of corresponding variable occurrences in L and R. By introducing the notion of difference, the proof is…