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Sudatta Bhattacharya and Michal Koucky
Abstract: In this paper we give an algorithm for streaming $k$-edit approximate pattern matching which uses space $\widetilde{O}(k^2)$ and time $\widetilde{O}(k^3)$ per arriving symbol. This improves substantially on the recent algorithm of Kociumaka, Porat and Starikovskaya (2021) which uses space $\widetilde{O}(k^5)$ and time $\widetilde{O}(k^8)$ per arriving symbol. In the $k$-edit approximate pattern matching problem we get a pattern $P$ and text $T$ and we want to identify all substrings of the text $T$ that are at edit distance at most $k$ from $P$. In the streaming version of this problem both the pattern and the text arrive in a streaming fashion symbol by symbol and after each symbol of the text we need to report whether there is a current suffix of the text with edit distance at most $k$ from $P$. We measure the total space needed by the algorithm and time needed per arriving symbol.