Questions tagged [splay-trees]
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Doubt on Performance Comparison of Splay Trees
I'm trying to understand splay tree performance compared to a standard balanced tree like AVL/red-black. In practice, I am pretty skeptical of the amortized bounds Tarjan and Sleator proves in their ...
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How to reconstruct an existing splay tree by insertion?
I'm trying to figure out the same problem as stated in this question.
In brief, I want to reconstruct an existing splay tree (printed on paper) on Splay Tree Visualization by inserting the values in ...
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Can every node of a link/cut tree be accessed in $O(n)$ time?
Per the Sequential Access Theorem we can access every node of a splay tree in $O(n)$ time, when accessing the nodes in a specific order.
Given a link/cut tree, is it possible to access all of its ...
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Prove that a sequence of increasing find operations on a splay tree takes $\mathcal{O}(n)$ time
When studying about splay trees, I found the following statement:
Suppose we have a splay tree and a sequence of Find operations, where the elements we are searching for are in increasing order. ...
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Merging two splay trees whose ranges may overlap in $O(\log N)$
I have two splay trees, $A$ and $B$.
When every element in $A$ is smaller than every element in $B$, we can merge them in $O(\log N)$.
My question is; when all elements of $A$ are not necessarily ...
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Example of tree with > 6 vertices, tree would have depth = n after splay() deepest vertex
How to build tree with more than 6 vertices, that after operation splay() would have depth = number of vertices? Is it possible?
UPD:
Example for n = 4:
insert 60
insert 10
insert 20
insert 50
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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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Splay Tree - Insert Permutation
Let $T$ be a Splay Tree. For a given permutation $\sigma$ on a set $S = \{1,2,3,...n \}$ we defined the following function:
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Splay trees: why are depths of nodes on the access path halved?
The original paper describing splay trees Self-Adjusting Binary Search Trees by Sleator and Tarjan claims that:
Splaying not only moves x to the root, but roughly halves the depth of every node ...
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Accounting value of Splay trees?
In Splay trees, by definition - the required element x - rises to the root of the tree, using the operations: zig, zig-zig, zig-zag. And the formula zig of the step is this: ...
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Proof of Zig-Zig step
There was a question connected with one of the video lecture lessons that I'm currently watching.
Let two trees be given - the original and the tree after the zig-zig step:
Calculate the cost of ...
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Make appends not degrade a splay tree
Splay trees offer armotized O(log n) access to tree elements. However, if you keep repeatedly appending elements to a splay tree, without splaying any other elements, it degrades into a linked list ...
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Why is maximum size of root is 2n + 1 in Splay trees?
In the amortized analysis of Splaying in Dynamic trees, let us consider a splay tree $T$ with $n$ keys and $v$ be a node of $T$. We define $size(v)$ as the number of nodes in the subtree rooted at $...
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Rotations in splay trees
I am having some difficulties splaying the element 4 to the root.
Considering the following splay tree.
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Proof by induction for a splay tree?
I'm preparing for an exam about Trees. One of the questions that appear in Mark Allen Weiss' "Data Structures and Algorithms Analysis in C++" is:
Prove by induction that if all nodes in a splay ...
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Splay tree with odd number of rotations
When inserting an item into a splay tree, rotations are performed in pairs based on either a zig-zag or zig-zig pattern. When there is an odd number of rotations to be performed, one could either do ...
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Is there a binary tree structure with fast access to recently accessed elements and worst $O \left( \log n \right )$ complexity?
The idea of splay trees is very nice as they move frequently accessed elements to the top, which can gain a considerable speed up in many applications. The drawback is that in the worst case an ...
