FIX to Compressed Text Indexes with Fast Locate

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Level: Serious

The analytical results claiming O(H_k log(1/H_k)n log n) bits for the locating structure, are not properly proved and most likely are incorrect; see Appendix A in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.10382.pdf. An alternative grammar compressor achieving this space is given in that arxiv paper.

In practice RePair compresses much better than the variant that offers a guarantee, and the value of the paper is mostly practical.