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A Study on Splay Trees

Data Structures and Algorithms 2020-04-08 v3

Abstract

We study the dynamic optimality conjecture, which predicts that splay trees are a form of universally efficient binary search tree, for any access sequence. We reduce this claim to a regular access bound, which seems plausible and might be easier to prove. This approach may be useful to establish dynamic optimality.

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@article{arxiv.1511.03148,
  title  = {A Study on Splay Trees},
  author = {Luís M. S. Russo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03148},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

This research has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 BIRDS GA No. 690941

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