Let E be a real Banach space and P a cone in E which defines a partial ordering in E by x ≤ y if and only if y − x ∈ P . P is said to be normal if there exists a positive constant N such that θ ≤ x ≤ y implies ||x|| ≤ N||y||, where θ denotes the zero element of E and the smallest N is called the normal constant of P . If x ≤ y and x / y, we write x < y. For details on cone theory, see 1 . In pa...

Article history: Received 16 April 2008 Revised 17 March 2009 Available online 2 April 2009 MSC: primary 34L15 secondary 34L40, 47J30

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We consider the problem of encoding range minimum queries (RMQs): given an array A[1..n] of distinct totally ordered values, to pre-process A and create a data structure that can answer the query RMQ(i, j), which returns the index containing the smallest element in A[i..j], without access to the array A at query time. We give a data structure whose space usage is 2n + o(n) bits, which is asympt...

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