This paper provides upper bounds for several subsets of maximal repeats and maximal pairs in compressed strings and also presents a formerly unknown relationship between maximal pairs and the run-length Burrows-Wheeler transform. This relationship is used to obtain a different proof for the Burrows-Wheeler conjecture which has recently been proven by Kempa and Kociumaka in "Resolution of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform Conjecture". More formally, this paper proves that the run-length Burrows-Wheeler transform of a string S with z_S LZ77-factors has at most 73(log₂ |S|)(z_S+2)² runs, and if S does not contain q-th powers, the number of arcs in the compacted directed acyclic word graph of S is bounded from above by 18q(1+log_q |S|)(z_S+2)².

The discrete acyclic convolution computes the 2n+1 sums ∑_{i+j=k|(i,j)∈[0,1,2,… ,n]²} a_i b_j in ?(n log n) time. By using suitable offsets and setting some of the variables to zero, this method provides a tool to calculate all non-zero sums ∑_{i+j=k|(i,j)∈ P∩ℤ²} a_i b_j in a rectangle P with perimeter p in ?(p log p) time. This paper extends this geometric interpretation in order to allow arbitrary convex polygons P with k vertices and perimeter p. Also, this extended algorithm only needs ?(k + p(log p)² log k) time. Additionally, this paper presents fast algorithms for counting sub-cadences and cadences with 3 elements using this extended method.

This paper presents and proves a new non-trivial upper bound on the number of maximal repeats of compressed strings. Using Theorem 1 of Raffinot’s article "On Maximal Repeats in Strings", this upper bound can be directly translated into an upper bound on the number of nodes in the Compacted Directed Acyclic Word Graphs of compressed strings. More formally, this paper proves that the number of maximal repeats in a string with z (self-referential) LZ77-factors and without q-th powers is at most 3q(z+1)^3-2. Also, this paper proves that for 2000 <= z <= q this upper bound is tight up to a constant factor.