Pairing heaps with O(log log n) decrease cost

  • Authors:
  • Amr Elmasry

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SODA '09 Proceedings of the twentieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We give a variation of the pairing heaps for which the time bounds for all the operations match the lower bound proved by Fredman for a family of similar self-adjusting heaps. Namely, our heap structure requires O(1) for insert and findmin, O(log n) for delete-min, and O(log log n) for decrease-key and meld (all the bounds are in the amortized sense except for find-min).