A Simple Algorithm for Computing the Lempel Ziv Factorization

  • Authors:
  • Maxime Crochemore;Lucian Ilie;W. F. Smyth

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DCC '08 Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We give a space-efficient simple algorithm for computing the Lempel--Ziv factorization of a string. For a string of length n over an integer alphabet, it runs in O(n) time independently of alphabet size and uses o(n) additional space.