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A repertoire for additive functionals of uniformly distributed m-ary search trees

Probability 2007-05-23 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Using recent results on singularity analysis for Hadamard products of generating functions, we obtain the limiting distributions for additive functionals on mm-ary search trees on nn keys with toll sequence (i) nαn^\alpha with α0\alpha \geq 0 (α=0\alpha=0 and α=1\alpha=1 correspond roughly to the space requirement and total path length, respectively); (ii) ln(nm1)\ln \binom{n}{m-1}, which corresponds to the so-called shape functional; and (iii) 1n=m1\mathbf{1}_{n=m-1}, which corresponds to the number of leaves.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0502422,
  title  = {A repertoire for additive functionals of uniformly distributed m-ary search trees},
  author = {James Allen Fill and Nevin Kapur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0502422},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

26 pages; v2 expands on the introduction by comparing the results with other probability models

R2 v1 2026-07-22T17:15:52.442Z