We show how to merge two run-length compressed Burrows-Wheeler Transforms (RLBWTs) into a run-length compressed extended Burrows-Wheeler Transform (eBWT) in O(r) space and O((r+L)log(m+n)) time, where m and n are the lengths of the uncompressed strings, r is the number of runs in the final eBWT and L is the sum of its irreducible LCP values.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.16953,
title = {Merging RLBWTs adaptively},
author = {Travis Gagie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.16953},
year = {2026}
}