Substring Complexities on Run-length Compressed Strings

Abstract: Let $S_{T}(k)$ denote the set of distinct substrings of length $k$ in a string $T$, then the $k$-th substring complexity is defined by its cardinality $|S_{T}(k)|$. Recently, $\delta = \max { |S_{T}(k)| / k : k \ge 1 }$ is shown to be a good compressibility measure of highly-repetitive strings. In this paper, given $T$ of length $n$ in the run-length compressed form of size $r$, we show that $\delta$ can be computed in $\mathit{C}<em>{\mathsf{sort}}(r, n)$ time and $O(r)$ space, where $$\mathit{C}</em>{\mathsf{sort}}(r, n) = O(\min (r \lg\lg r, r \lg_{r} n))$$ is the time complexity for sorting $r$ $O(\lg n)$-bit integers in $O(r)$ space in the Word-RAM model with word size $\Omega(\lg n)$.