A Tight Amortized Bound for Path Reversal

Report ID: TR-163-88
Author: Tarjan, Robert E. / Sleator, Daniel D. / Ginat, David
Date: 1988-06-00
Pages: 7
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Abstract:

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.