Efficient computation of longest single-arm-gapped palindromes in a   string
  In this paper, we introduce new types of approximate palindromes called single-arm-gapped palindromes (shortly SAGPs). A SAGP contains a gap in either its left or right arm, which is in the form of either $wguc u^R w^R$ or $wuc u^Rgw^R$, where $w$ and $u$ are non-empty strings, $w^R$ and $u^R$ are respectively the reversed strings of $w$ and $u$, $g$ is a string called a gap, and $c$ is either a single character or the empty string. Here we call $wu$ and $u^R w^R$ the arm of the SAGP, and $|uv|$ the length of the arm. We classify SAGPs into two groups: those which have $ucu^R$ as a maximal palindrome (type-1), and the others (type-2). We propose several algorithms to compute type-1 SAGPs with longest arms occurring in a given string, based on suffix arrays. Then, we propose a linear-time algorithm to compute all type-1 SAGPs with longest arms, based on suffix trees. Also, we show how to compute type-2 SAGPs with longest arms in linear time. We also perform some preliminary experiments to show practical performances of the proposed methods. 
Shintaro Narisada, Diptarama Hendrian, Kazuyuki Narisawa, Shunsuke   Inenaga, Ayumi Shinohara
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