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A Bijective String Sorting Transform

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A Bijective String Sorting Transform
Given a string of characters, the Burrows-Wheeler Transform rearranges the characters in it so as to produce another string of the same length which is more amenable to compression techniques such as move to front, run-length encoding, and entropy encoders. We present a variant of the transform which gives rise to similar or better compression value, but, unlike the original, the transform we present is bijective, in that the inverse transformation exists for all strings. Our experiments indicate that using our variant of the transform gives rise to better compression ratio than the original Burrows-Wheeler than the original transform. We also show that both the transform and its inverse can be computed in linear time and consuming linear storage.
Joseph Yossi Gil, David Allen Scott
Added 20 Apr 2012
Updated 20 Apr 2012
Type Journal
Year 2012
Where CORR
Authors Joseph Yossi Gil, David Allen Scott
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