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TR-163-88
A Tight Amortized Bound for Path Reversal |
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| Authors: | Ginat, David, Sleator, Daniel D., Tarjan, Robert E. |
| Date: | June 1988 |
| Pages: | 5 |
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Path reversal is a form of path compression used in a disjoint set union algorithm and a mutual exclusion algorithm. We derive a tight upper bound on the amortized cost of path reversal. |
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