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Singularity analysis, Hadamard products, and tree recurrences

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1 Probability

Abstract

We present a toolbox for extracting asymptotic information on the coefficients of combinatorial generating functions. This toolbox notably includes a treatment of the effect of Hadamard products on singularities in the context of the complex Tauberian technique known as singularity analysis. As a consequence, it becomes possible to unify the analysis of a number of divide-and-conquer algorithms, or equivalently random tree models, including several classical methods for sorting, searching, and dynamically managing equivalence relations

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@article{arxiv.math/0306225,
  title  = {Singularity analysis, Hadamard products, and tree recurrences},
  author = {James Allen Fill and Philippe Flajolet and Nevin Kapur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0306225},
  year   = {2007}
}

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47 pages. Submitted for publication