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Questions about different distance metrics on strings.

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Fast k mismatch string matching algorithm

Suffix arrays can be used for this problem. They contain the starting positions of each suffix of the string sorted in lexicographic order. Even though they can be constructed naively in $O(n\log n)$ …
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