Quantum Pattern Matching with Wildcards
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| author | Seddighin, Masoud Seddighin, Saeed |
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| contents | Pattern matching is one of the fundamental problems in Computer Science. Both the classic version of the problem as well as the more sophisticated version where wildcards can also appear in the input can be solved in almost linear time $\tilde O(n)$ using the KMP algorithm and Fast Fourier Transform, respectively. In 2000, Ramesh and Vinay~\cite{ramesh2003string} give a quantum algorithm that solves classic pattern matching in sublinear time and asked whether the wildcard problem can also be solved in sublinear time? In this work, we give a quantum algorithm for pattern matching with wildcards that runs in time $\tilde O(\sqrt{n}\sqrt{k})$ when the number of wildcards is bounded by $k$ for $k \geq \sqrt{n}$. This leads to an algorithm that runs in sublinear time as long as the number of wildcards is sublinear. |
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| spellingShingle | Quantum Pattern Matching with Wildcards Seddighin, Masoud Seddighin, Saeed Data Structures and Algorithms Pattern matching is one of the fundamental problems in Computer Science. Both the classic version of the problem as well as the more sophisticated version where wildcards can also appear in the input can be solved in almost linear time $\tilde O(n)$ using the KMP algorithm and Fast Fourier Transform, respectively. In 2000, Ramesh and Vinay~\cite{ramesh2003string} give a quantum algorithm that solves classic pattern matching in sublinear time and asked whether the wildcard problem can also be solved in sublinear time? In this work, we give a quantum algorithm for pattern matching with wildcards that runs in time $\tilde O(\sqrt{n}\sqrt{k})$ when the number of wildcards is bounded by $k$ for $k \geq \sqrt{n}$. This leads to an algorithm that runs in sublinear time as long as the number of wildcards is sublinear. |
| title | Quantum Pattern Matching with Wildcards |
| topic | Data Structures and Algorithms |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13885 |