Given a string S, the compressed indexing problem is to preprocess S into a compressed representation that supports fast substring queries. The goal is to use little space relative to the compressed size of S while supporting fast queries. We present a compressed index based on the Lempel-Ziv 1977 compression scheme. Let n, and z denote the size of the input string, and the compressed LZ77 string, respectively. We obtain the following time-space trade-offs. Given a pattern string P of length m, we can solve the problem in (i) O(m + occ lglg n) time using O(z lg(n/z) lglg z) space, or (ii) O(m(1 + lg^e z / lg(n/z)) + occ(lglg n + lg^e z)) time using O(z lg(n/z)) space, for any 0 < e < 1 In particular, (i) improves the leading term in the query time of the previous best solution from O(m lg m) to O(m) at the cost of increasing the space by a factor lglg z. Alternatively, (ii) matches the previous best space bound, but has a leading term in the query time of O(m(1+lg^e z / lg(n/z))). However, for any polynomial compression ratio, i.e., z = O(n^{1-d}), for constant d > 0, this becomes O(m). Our index also supports extraction of any substring of length l in O(l + lg(n/z)) time. Technically, our results are obtained by novel extensions and combinations of existing data structures of independent interest, including a new batched variant of weak prefix search.
@InProceedings{bille_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2017.16, author = {Bille, Philip and Ettienne, Mikko Berggren and G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Vildh{\o}j, Hjalte Wedel}, title = {{Time-Space Trade-Offs for Lempel-Ziv Compressed Indexing}}, booktitle = {28th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2017)}, pages = {16:1--16:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-039-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2017}, volume = {78}, editor = {K\"{a}rkk\"{a}inen, Juha and Radoszewski, Jakub and Rytter, Wojciech}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2017.16}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-73254}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2017.16}, annote = {Keywords: compressed indexing, pattern matching, LZ77, prefix search} }
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