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On The Average-Case Complexity of Shellsort

Data Structures and Algorithms 2019-08-29 v4 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We prove a lower bound expressed in the increment sequence on the average-case complexity of the number of inversions of Shellsort. This lower bound is sharp in every case where it could be checked. A special case of this lower bound yields the general Jiang-Li-Vit\'anyi lower bound. We obtain new results e.g. determining the average-case complexity precisely in the Yao-Janson-Knuth 3-pass case.

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@article{arxiv.1501.06461,
  title  = {On The Average-Case Complexity of Shellsort},
  author = {Paul M. B. Vitanyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.06461},
  year   = {2019}
}

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