Insertions and deletions in one-sided height-balanced trees

  • Authors:
  • S. Rao Kosaraju

  • Affiliations:
  • The John Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1978

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Abstract

Recently Hirschberg has established that insertions into one-sided height-balanced trees can be done in O(log2N) steps. It is proved here that deletions can also be performed in O(log2N) steps, which answers the open problem posed by Hirschberg.