[Submitted on 11 May 2022]
Abstract: Introduced about thirty years ago in the field of Data Compression, the
Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is a string transformation that, besides being
a booster of the performance of memoryless compressors, plays a fundamental
role in the design of efficient self-indexing compressed data structures.
Finding other string transformations with the same remarkable properties of BWT
has been a challenge for many re