Sorted Range Reporting and Range Minima Queries

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Autores principales: Akram, Waseem, Saxena, Sanjeev
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author Akram, Waseem
Saxena, Sanjeev
author_facet Akram, Waseem
Saxena, Sanjeev
contents Given an array A[1: n] of n elements drawn from an ordered set, the sorted range selection problem is to build a data structure that can be used to answer the following type of queries efficiently: Given a pair of indices i, j $ (1\le i\le j \le n)$, and a positive integer k, report the k smallest elements from the sub-array A[i: j] in order. Brodal et al. (Brodal, G.S., Fagerberg, R., Greve, M., and L{ó}pez-Ortiz, A., Online sorted range reporting. Algorithms and Computation (2009) pp. 173--182) introduced the problem and gave an optimal solution. After O(n log n) time for preprocessing, the query time is O(k). The space used is O(n). In this paper, we propose the only other possible optimal trade-off for the problem. We present a linear space solution to the problem that takes O(k log k) time to answer a range selection query. The preprocessing time is O(n). Moreover, the proposed algorithm reports the output elements one by one in non-decreasing order. Our solution is simple and practical. We also describe an extremely simple method for range minima queries (most of whose parts are known) which takes al most (but not exactly) linear time. We believe that this method may be, in practice, faster and easier to implement in most cases.
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spellingShingle Sorted Range Reporting and Range Minima Queries
Akram, Waseem
Saxena, Sanjeev
Data Structures and Algorithms
Given an array A[1: n] of n elements drawn from an ordered set, the sorted range selection problem is to build a data structure that can be used to answer the following type of queries efficiently: Given a pair of indices i, j $ (1\le i\le j \le n)$, and a positive integer k, report the k smallest elements from the sub-array A[i: j] in order. Brodal et al. (Brodal, G.S., Fagerberg, R., Greve, M., and L{ó}pez-Ortiz, A., Online sorted range reporting. Algorithms and Computation (2009) pp. 173--182) introduced the problem and gave an optimal solution. After O(n log n) time for preprocessing, the query time is O(k). The space used is O(n). In this paper, we propose the only other possible optimal trade-off for the problem. We present a linear space solution to the problem that takes O(k log k) time to answer a range selection query. The preprocessing time is O(n). Moreover, the proposed algorithm reports the output elements one by one in non-decreasing order. Our solution is simple and practical. We also describe an extremely simple method for range minima queries (most of whose parts are known) which takes al most (but not exactly) linear time. We believe that this method may be, in practice, faster and easier to implement in most cases.
title Sorted Range Reporting and Range Minima Queries
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02461