Theory of 2-3 heaps

  • Authors:
  • Tadao Takaoka

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics - Special issue: Special issue devoted to the fifth annual international computing and combinatories conference (COCOON'99) Tokyo, Japan 26-28 July 1999
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

As an alternative to the Fibonacci heap, we design a new data structure called a 2-3 heap, which supports n insert, n delete-min, and m decrease-key operations in O(m + n log n) time. Our experiments show the 2-3 heap is more efficient. The new data structure will have a wide application in graph algorithms.