On a multidimensional search problem (Preliminary Version)

  • Authors:
  • S. Rao Kosaraju

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STOC '79 Proceedings of the eleventh annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

The problem of searching for a given k-vector among a sorted list of n k-vectors is considered. The binary search is known to be optimal when k is 1. Here an almost optimal algorithm is presented for the 2-dimensional case. Interesting upper and lower bounds are derived for the general problem.