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Given a string of length $n$ that is composed of $r$ runs of letters from the alphabet $\{0,1,\ldots,\sigma{-}1\}$ such that $2 \le \sigma \le r$, we describe a data structure that, provided $r \le n / \log^{\omega(1)} n$, stores the string…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-27 José Fuentes-Sepúlveda , Juha Kärkkäinen , Dmitry Kosolobov , Simon J. Puglisi

A longest repeat query on a string, motivated by its applications in many subfields including computational biology, asks for the longest repetitive substring(s) covering a particular string position (point query). In this paper, we extend…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Bojian Xu

Ordered search is the task of finding an item in an ordered list using comparison queries. The best exact classical algorithm for this fundamental problem uses $\lceil \log_{2}{n}\rceil$ queries for a list of length $n$. Quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Joseph Carolan , Andrew M. Childs , Matt Kovacs-Deak , Luke Schaeffer

We devise a data structure that can answer shortest path queries for two query points in a polygonal domain $P$ on $n$ vertices. For any $\varepsilon > 0$, the space complexity of the data structure is $O(n^{10+\varepsilon })$ and queries…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sarita de Berg , Tillmann Miltzow , Frank Staals

The dictionary matching is a task to find all occurrences of patterns in a set $D$ (called a dictionary) on a text $T$. The Aho-Corasick-automaton (AC-automaton) is a data structure which enables us to solve the dictionary matching problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Diptarama Hendrian , Shunsuke Inenaga , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

Data structures that realize a dictionary are characterized by three basic instructions: (1) Insert (a new entry <key,value>). (2) Search by a key, returning the associated value. (3) Delete an entry. Known realizations are hashing schemes…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Josef Schoenbrunner

For many kinds of prefix-free codes there are efficient and compact alternatives to the traditional tree-based representation. Since these put the codes into canonical form, however, they can only be used when we can choose the order in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Antonio Fariña , Travis Gagie , Szymon Grabowski , Giovanni Manzini , Gonzalo Navarro , Alberto Ordóñez

In this paper we are interested in indexing texts for substring matching queries with one edit error. That is, given a text $T$ of $n$ characters over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, we are asked to build a data structure that answers the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Djamal Belazzougui

A classic data structure problem is to preprocess a string T of length $n$ so that, given a query $q$, we can quickly find all substrings of T with Hamming distance at most $k$ from the query string. Variants of this problem have seen…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jackson Bibbens , Levi Borevitz , Samuel McCauley

Most of the attention in statistical compression is given to the space used by the compressed sequence, a problem completely solved with optimal prefix codes. However, in many applications, the storage space used to represent the prefix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro , Yakov Nekrich , Alberto Ordóñez

We revisit the range minimum query problem and present a new O(n)-space data structure that supports queries in O(1) time. Although previous data structures exist whose asymptotic bounds match ours, our goal is to introduce a new solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-22 Stephane Durocher

In this work, we study the limits of compressed data structures, i.e., structures that support various queries on an input text $T\in\Sigma^n$ using space proportional to the size of $T$ in compressed form. Nearly all fundamental queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Dominik Kempa , Tomasz Kociumaka

A compressed self-index stores a string in compressed form while supporting locate queries without decompression. For highly repetitive strings (arising in web crawls, versioned documents, and genomic collections), static self-indexes can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Takaaki Nishimoto , Yasuo Tabei

The problem of storing a set of strings --- a string dictionary --- in compact form appears naturally in many cases. While classically it has represented a small part of the whole data to be processed (e.g., for Natural Language processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-31 Nieves R. Brisaboa , Rodrigo Cánovas , Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto , Gonzalo Navarro

We investigate the limits of one of the fundamental ideas in data structures: fractional cascading. This is an important data structure technique to speed up repeated searches for the same key in multiple lists and it has numerous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Peyman Afshani

The representation of a dynamic ordered set of $n$ integer keys drawn from a universe of size $m$ is a fundamental data structuring problem. Many solutions to this problem achieve optimal time but take polynomial space, therefore preserving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Rossano Venturini

Time series are ubiquitous in domains ranging from medicine to marketing and finance. Frequent Pattern Mining (FPM) from a time series has thus received much attention. Recently, it has been studied under the order-preserving (OP) matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Ling Li , Wiktor Zuba , Grigorios Loukides , Solon P. Pissis , Maria Matsangidou

We consider the task of constructing a data structure for associating a static set of keys with values, while allowing arbitrary output values for queries involving keys outside the set. Compared to hash tables, these so-called static…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Stefan Hermann , Hans-Peter Lehmann , Giorgio Vinciguerra , Stefan Walzer

We solve the dynamic Predecessor Problem with high probability (whp) in constant time, using only $n^{1+\delta}$ bits of memory, for any constant $\delta > 0$. The input keys are random wrt a wider class of the well studied and practically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-25 D. Belazzougui , A. C. Kaporis , P. G. Spirakis

A choice dictionary can be initialized with a parameter $n\in\mathbb{N}$ and subsequently maintains an initially empty subset $S$ of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ under insertion, deletion, membership queries and an operation $\textit{choice}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Torben Hagerup