On the size of succinct indices

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Golynski;Roberto Grossi;Ankur Gupta;Rajeev Raman;Satti Srinivasa Rao

  • Affiliations:
  • David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy;Butler University;Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK;IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • ESA'07 Proceedings of the 15th annual European conference on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A succinct data structure occupies an amount of space that is close to the information-theoretic minimum plus an additional term. The latter is not necessarily a lower-order term and, in several cases, completely dominates the space occupancy both in theory and in practice. In this paper, we present several solutions to partially overcome this problem, introducing new techniques of independent interest that allow us to improve over previously known upper and lower bounds.