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Covers in Optimal Space

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  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • Cover
  • Read-only random access
  • small space

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Abstract

A cover of a string S is a string C such that every index of S is contained in some occurrence of C. First introduced by Apostolico and Ehrenfeucht [TCS'93] over 30 years ago, covers have since received significant attention in the string algorithms community. In this work, we present a space-efficient algorithm for computing a compact representation of all covers of a given string. Our algorithm requires only O(log n) additional memory while accessing the input string of length n in a read-only manner. Moreover, it runs in O(n) time, matching the best-known time complexity for this problem while achieving an exponential improvement in space usage.

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Itai Boneh and Shay Golan. Covers in Optimal Space. In 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 331, pp. 5:1-5:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.5

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Itai Boneh
  • Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel
  • University of Haifa, Israel
Shay Golan
  • Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel
  • University of Haifa, Israel

Funding

This research was supported by Israel Science Foundation grant 810/21.

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