Finger Search in Grammar-Compressed Strings

Autor: Inge Li Gørtz, Philip Bille, Patrick Hagge Cording, Anders Roy Christiansen
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Bille, P, Christiansen, A R, Cording, P H & Gørtz, I L 2016, Finger Search in Grammar-Compressed Strings . in Proceedings of the 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016) ., 36, Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, vol. 65, 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016), Chennai, India, 13/12/2016 . https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.36
Bille, P, Christiansen, A R, Cording, P H & Gørtz, I L 2018, ' Finger Search in Grammar-Compressed Strings ', Theory of Computing Systems, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 1715-1735 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-017-9839-9
ISSN: 1433-0490
1432-4350
DOI: 10.1007/s00224-017-9839-9
Popis: Grammar-based compression, where one replaces a long string by a small context-free grammar that generates the string, is a simple and powerful paradigm that captures many popular compression schemes. Given a grammar, the random access problem is to compactly represent the grammar while supporting random access, that is, given a position in the original uncompressed string report the character at that position. In this paper we study the random access problem with the finger search property, that is, the time for a random access query should depend on the distance between a specified index $f$, called the \emph{finger}, and the query index $i$. We consider both a static variant, where we first place a finger and subsequently access indices near the finger efficiently, and a dynamic variant where also moving the finger such that the time depends on the distance moved is supported. Let $n$ be the size the grammar, and let $N$ be the size of the string. For the static variant we give a linear space representation that supports placing the finger in $O(\log N)$ time and subsequently accessing in $O(\log D)$ time, where $D$ is the distance between the finger and the accessed index. For the dynamic variant we give a linear space representation that supports placing the finger in $O(\log N)$ time and accessing and moving the finger in $O(\log D + \log \log N)$ time. Compared to the best linear space solution to random access, we improve a $O(\log N)$ query bound to $O(\log D)$ for the static variant and to $O(\log D + \log \log N)$ for the dynamic variant, while maintaining linear space. As an application of our results we obtain an improved solution to the longest common extension problem in grammar compressed strings. To obtain our results, we introduce several new techniques of independent interest, including a novel van Emde Boas style decomposition of grammars.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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