Título: A Gaussian limit process for optimal FIND algorithms
Autores: Sulzbach, Henning; INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt
Neininger, Ralph; Goethe University Frankfurt
Drmota, Michael; TU Vienna
Fecha: 2014-01-02
Publicador: Electronic journal of probability
Fuente:
Tipo: Peer-reviewed Article
Tema: FIND algorithm, Quickselect, complexity, key comparisons, functional limit theorem, contraction method, Gaussian process
60F17; 68P10; 60G15; 60C05; 68Q25
Descripción: We consider versions of the FIND algorithm where the pivot element used is the median of a subset chosen uniformly at random from the data. For the median selection we assume that subsamples of size asymptotic to $c \cdot n^\alpha$ are chosen, where $0< \alpha \leq \frac{1}{2}$, $c>0$ and $n$ is the size of the data set to be split. We consider the complexity of FIND as a process in the rank to be selected and measured by the number of key comparisons required. After normalization we show weak convergence of the complexity to a centered Gaussian process as $n \to \infty$, which depends on $\alpha$. The proof relies on a contraction argument for probability distributions on càdlàg functions. We also identify the covariance function of the Gaussian limit process and discuss path and tail properties.
Idioma: Inglés

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