Abstract:An edit distance is a metric between words that quantifies how two words differ by counting the number of edit operations needed to transform one word into the other one. A word f is said isometric with respect to an edit distance if, for any pair of f -free words u and v, there exists a transformation of minimal length from u to v via the related edit operations such that all the intermediate words are also ffree. The adjective "isometric" comes from the fact that, if the Hamming distance is considered (i.e.,… Show more
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