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Main Authors: Navarro, Gonzalo, Urbina, Cristian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09232
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  • We explore an extension to straight-line programs (SLPs) that outperforms, for some text families, the measure $δ$ based on substring complexity, a lower bound for most measures and compressors exploiting repetitiveness (which are crucial in areas like Bioinformatics). The extension, called iterated SLPs (ISLPs), allows rules of the form $A \rightarrow Π_{i=k_1}^{k_2} B_1^{i^{c_1}}\cdots B_t^{i^{c_t}}$, for which we show how to extract any substring of length $λ$, from the represented text $T[1.. n]$, in time $O(λ+ \log^2 n\log\log n)$. This is the first compressed representation for repetitive texts breaking $δ$ while, at the same time, supporting direct access to arbitrary text symbols in polylogarithmic time. As a byproduct, we extend Ganardi et al.'s technique to balance any SLP (so it has a derivation tree of logarithmic height) to a wide generalization of SLPs, including ISLPs.