Lempel-Ziv Computation In Compressed Space (LZ-CICS)

Abstract

We show that both the Lempel Ziv 77- and the 78-factorization of a text of length $n$ on an integer alphabet of size $\sigma$ can be computed in $O(n \lg \lg \sigma)$ time (linear time if we allow randomization) using $O(n \lg \sigma)$ bits of working space. Given that a compressed representation of the suffix tree is loaded into RAM, we can compute both factorizations in $O(n)$ time using $z \lg n + O(n)$ bits of space, where $z$ is the number of factors.