A simple and optimal ancestry labeling scheme for trees

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Abstract: We present a lgn+2lglgn+3 ancestry labeling scheme for trees. The problem was first presented by Kannan et al. [STOC 88'] along with a simple 2lgn solution. Motivated by applications to XML files, the label size was improved incrementally over the course of more than 20 years by a series of papers. The last, due to Fraigniaud and Korman [STOC 10'], presented an asymptotically optimal lgn+4lglgn+O(1) labeling scheme using non-trivial tree-decomposition techniques. By providing a framework generalizing interval based labeling schemes, we obtain a simple, yet asymptotically optimal solution to the problem. Furthermore, our labeling scheme is attained by a small modification of the original 2lgn solution.









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