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Uniform distribution modulo one and binary search trees

Michel Dekking, Peter Van der Wal (2002)

Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux

Any sequence x = ( x k ) k = 1 of distinct numbers from [0,1] generates a binary tree by storing the numbers consecutively at the nodes according to a left-right algorithm (or equivalently by sorting the numbers according to the Quicksort algorithm). Let H n ( x ) be the height of the tree generated by x 1 , , x n . Obviously log n log 2 - 1 H n ( x ) n - 1 . If the sequences x are generated by independent random variables having the uniform distribution on [0, 1], then it is well known that there exists c > 0 such that H n ( x ) c log n as n for almost all sequences x . Recently...

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