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arxiv: 1709.09574 · v1 · submitted 2017-09-27 · 💻 cs.DS

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Fillable arrays with constant time operations and a single bit of redundancy

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In the fillable array problem one must maintain an array A[1..n] of $w$-bit entries subject to random access reads and writes, and also a $\texttt{fill}(\Delta)$ operation which sets every entry of to some $\Delta\in\{0,\ldots,2^w-1\}$. We show that with just one bit of redundancy, i.e. a data structure using $nw+1$ bits of memory, $\texttt{read}/\texttt{fill}$ can be implemented in worst case constant time, and $\texttt{write}$ can be implemented in either amortized constant time (deterministically) or worst case expected constant (randomized). In the latter case, we need to store an additional $O(\log n)$ random bits to specify a permutation drawn from an $1/n^2$-almost pairwise independent family.

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