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Asymptotics of the number of words in a regular language of given length

For a regular language $L$, let $c_n(L)$ be the number of words in $L$ of length $n$. Using Jordan canonical form (applied to the unannotated transition matrix of some DFA for $L$), one can show that ...
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Is there a 'string stack' data structure that supports these string operations?

I'm looking for a data structure that stores a set of strings over a character set $\Sigma$, capable of performing the following operations. We denote $\mathcal{D}(S)$ as the data structure storing ...
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Is Logical Min-Cut NP-Complete?

Logical Min Cut (LMC) problem definition Suppose that $G = (V, E)$ is an unweighted digraph, $s$ and $t$ are two vertices of $V$, and $t$ is reachable from $s$. The LMC Problem studies how we can ...
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Theoretical foundations of Divide and Conquer

When it comes to the design of algorithms, one often employs the following techniques: Dynamic Programming The Greedy-Strategy Divide-and-Conquer While for the first two methods, there are ...
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How to pack polygons inside another polygon?

I have ordered a few leather sheets from which I would like to build juggling balls by sewing edges together. I'm using the Platonic solids for the shape of the balls. I can scan the leather sheets ...
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On “The Average Height of Planted Plane Trees” by Knuth, de Bruijn and Rice (1972)

I am trying to derive the classic paper in the title only by elementary means (no generating functions, no complex analysis, no Fourier analysis) although with much less precision. In short, I "only" ...
Say I have a weighted undirected complete graph $G = (V, E)$. Each edge $e = (u, v, w)$ is assigned with a positive weight $w$. I want to calculate the minimum-weighted $(d, h)$-tree-decomposition. By ...
Solving divide & conquer reccurences if the split-ratio depends on $n$
Is there a general method to solve the recurrence of the form: $T(n) = T(n-n^c) + T(n^c) + f(n)$ for $c < 1$, or more generally $T(n) = T(n-g(n)) + T(r(n)) + f(n)$ where $g(n),r(n)$ are some ...