Compressed Consecutive Pattern Matching†

Originating from the work of Navarro and Thankachan [TCS 2016], the problem of consecutive pattern matching is a variant of the fundamental pattern matching problem, where one is given a text and a pair of patterns, and must compute their consecutive occurrences in the text. Assuming that the text is given as a straight-line program, we develop an algorithm that computes all consecutive occurrences in optimal time.