Refined Quicksort asymptotics
Probability
2013-01-25 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract
The complexity of the Quicksort algorithm is usually measured by the number of key comparisons used during its execution. When operating on a list of data, permuted uniformly at random, the appropriately normalized complexity is known to converge almost surely to a non-degenerate random limit . This assumes a natural embedding of all on one probability space, e.g., via random binary search trees. In this note a central limit theorem for the error term in the latter almost sure convergence is shown: where denotes a standard normal random variable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1207.4556,
title = {Refined Quicksort asymptotics},
author = {Ralph Neininger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4556},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
revised version; title slightly changed; accepted for publication in Random Structures and Algorithms