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A Separation Between Run-Length SLPs and LZ77

Data Structures and Algorithms 2017-11-21 v1

Abstract

In this paper we give an infinite family of strings for which the length of the Lempel-Ziv'77 parse is a factor Ω(logn/loglogn)\Omega(\log n/\log\log n) smaller than the smallest run-length grammar.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.07270,
  title  = {A Separation Between Run-Length SLPs and LZ77},
  author = {Philip Bille and Travis Gagie and Inge Li Gørtz and Nicola Prezza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07270},
  year   = {2017}
}
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