BWT; Compression; Lempel-Ziv; Computer Science (all); Theoretical Computer Science

Let T be a text of length n on an alphabet Σ of size σ, and let H0 be the zero-order empirical entropy of T. We show that the LZ77 factorization of T can be computed in nH0+o(nlogσ)+O(σlogn) bits of working space with an online algorithm running in …