a Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil b Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France c Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract:
We study the following problem. Given two sequences x and y over a finite alphabet, find a repetition-free longest common subsequence of x and y. We show several algorithmic results, a computational complexity result, and we describe a preliminary experimental study based on the proposed algorithms. We also show that this problem is APX-hard.