$r$-indexing Wheeler graphs

Abstract: Let $G$ be a Wheeler graph and $r$ be the number of runs in a Burrows-Wheeler Transform of $G$, and suppose $G$ can be decomposed into $\upsilon$ edge-disjoint directed paths whose internal vertices each have in- and out-degree exactly 1. We show how to store $G$ in $O (r + \upsilon)$ space such that later, given a pattern $P$, in $O (|P| \log \log |G|)$ time we can count the vertices of $G$ reachable by directed paths labelled $P$, and then report those vertices in $O (\log \log |G|)$ time per vertex.