Years and Authors of Summarized Original Work
2009; Belazzougui, Boldi, Pagh, Vigna
2011; Belazzougui, Boldi, Pagh, Vigna
Problem Definition
A minimal perfect hash function is a (data structure providing a) bijective map from a set S of n keys to the set of the first n natural numbers. In the static case (i.e., when the set S is known in advance), there is a wide spectrum of solutions available, offering different trade-offs in terms of construction time, access time, and size of the data structure.
An important distinction is whether any bijection will be suitable or whether one wants it to respect some specific property. A monotone minimal perfect hash function (MMPHF) is one where the keys are bit vectors and the function is required to preserve their lexicographic order.
Sometimes in the literature, this situation is identified with the one in which the set Shas some predefined linear order and the bijection is required to respect the order: in this case, one should more...
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Boldi, P., Vigna, S. (2016). Monotone Minimal Perfect Hash Functions. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2864-4_639
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