Individual displacements in hashing with coalesced chains

Authors:
Svante Janson
Affiliations:
Department of mathematics, uppsala university, po box 480, s-751 06 uppsala, sweden (e-mail: svante.janson@math.uu.se, http://www.math.uu.se/~svante/
Venue:
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We study the asymptotic distribution of the displacements in hashing with coalesced chains, for both late-insertion and early-insertion. Asymptotic formulas for means and variances follow. The method uses Poissonization and some stochastic calculus.