On the existence and construction of non-extreme (a, b)-trees

  • Authors:
  • Lars Jacobsen;Kim S. Larsen;Morten N. Nielsen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Main campus: Odense University, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Main campus: Odense University, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Main campus: Odense University, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In amortized analysis of data structures, it is standard to assume that initially the structure is empty. Usually, results cannot be established otherwise. In this paper, we investigate the possibilities of establishing such results for initially non-empty multiway trees.