Text Indexing and Searching in Sublinear Time

@inproceedings{Munro2020TextIA,
title={Text Indexing and Searching in Sublinear Time},
author={J. Ian Munro and Gonzalo Navarro and Yakov Nekrich},
booktitle={CPM},
year={2020}
}
• Published in CPM 1 December 2017
• Computer Science
We introduce the first index that can be built in $o(n)$ time for a text of length $n$, and also queried in $o(m)$ time for a pattern of length $m$. On a constant-size alphabet, for example, our index uses $O(n\log^{1/2+\varepsilon}n)$ bits, is built in $O(n/\log^{1/2-\varepsilon} n)$ deterministic time, and finds the $\mathrm{occ}$ pattern occurrences in time $O(m/\log n + \sqrt{\log n}\log\log n + \mathrm{occ})$, where $\varepsilon>0$ is an arbitrarily small constant. As a comparison, the…
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