Burrows-Wheeler transformations and de Bruijn words

  • Authors:
  • Peter M. Higgins

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We formulate and explain the extended Burrows-Wheeler transform of Mantaci et al. from the viewpoint of permutations on a chain taken as a union of partial order-preserving mappings. In so doing we establish a link with syntactic semigroups of languages that are themselves cyclic semigroups. We apply the extended transform with a view to generating de Bruijn words through inverting the transform. We also make use of de Bruijn words to facilitate a proof that the maximum number of distinct factors of a word of length n has the form 12n^2-O(nlogn).