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On the tails of the limiting Quicksort distribution

Probability 2015-09-29 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

We give asymptotics for the left and right tails of the limiting Quicksort distribution. The results agree with, but are less precise than, earlier non-rigorous results by Knessl and Spankowski.

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@article{arxiv.1508.07230,
  title  = {On the tails of the limiting Quicksort distribution},
  author = {Svante Janson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07230},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages. v2: Typos corrected and some formulations improved