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Splay Trees - Sequential Access Theorem & lower bound for comparison-based sorting
The following theorem was proven by R.E. Tarjan in 1984:
Theorem (Sequential Access Theorem). If we access each of the nodes of an arbitrary initial tree once, in symmetric order, the total time ...
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The validity of the potential function for splay tree
The paper "Self-Adjusting Binary Search Trees" defines (Page 658) the potential function for analyzing the amortized cost of a sequence of $m$ splay operations as the sum of the ranks of all nodes in ...
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