... of either αor β produces a k of size at least m, the later removal of fragments of size less than m cannot affect the kfound by the algorithm. Due to validity preservation,removal of any of ... node n1 of γL, we let π(n1) de-note the stripe of adjacent rows of π addressed bysubstring σ(n1) of σ(nL). If n1dominates n2in γL,we let π(n1, n2) denote the rows of π addressed ... lowest node from γRsuch thatthe links of αLare a subset of the links of γR(n).If the condition at line 3 is satisfied, all of the ma-trix entries of value 1 that are found from columnx1to...