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Tighter bounds for the sum of irreducible LCP values

  • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
  • University of Helsinki
  • Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

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Abstract

The suffix array is frequently augmented with the longestcommon- prefix (LCP) array that stores the lengths of the longest common prefixes between lexicographically adjacent suffixes of a text. While the sum of the values in the LCP array can be Ω(n2) for a text of length n, the sum of so-called irreducible LCP values was shown to be O(n lg n) just a few years ago. In this paper, we improve the bound to O(n lg r), where r ≤ n is the number of runs in the Burrows-Wheeler transform of the text. We also show that our bound is tight up to lower order terms (unlike the previous bound). Our results and the techniques used in proving them provide new insights into the combinatorics of text indexing and compression, and have immediate applications to LCP array construction algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCombinatorial Pattern Matching - 26th Annual Symposium, CPM 2015, Proceedings
EditorsUgo Vaccaro, Ely Porat, Ferdinando Cicalese
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages316-328
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319199283
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event26th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2015 - Ischia Island, Italy
Duration: Jun 29 2015Jul 1 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9133

Conference

Conference26th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2015
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityIschia Island
Period06/29/1507/1/15

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