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James Allen Fill
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2012
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Informatics Engineering
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Using a recursive approach, we obtain a simple exact expression for the L^2-distance from the limit in Regniers (1989) classical limit theorem for the number of key comparisons required by QuickSort. A previous study by Fill and Janson (2002) using a similar approach found that the d_2-distance is of order between n^{-1} log n and n^{-1/2}, and another by Neininger and Ruschendorf (2002) found that the Zolotarev zeta_3-distance is of exact order n^{-1} log n. Our expression reveals that the L^2-distance is asymptotically equivalent to (2 n^{-1} ln n)^{1/2}.
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In a continuous-time setting, Fill (2010) proved, for a large class of probabilistic sources, that the number of symbol comparisons used by QuickSort, when centered by subtracting the mean and scaled by dividing by time, has a limiting distribution, but proved little about that limiting random variable Y -- not even that it is nondegenerate. We establish the nondegeneracy of Y. The proof is perhaps surprisingly difficult.
As proved by Regnier and Rosler, the number of key comparisons required by the randomized sorting algorithm QuickSort to sort a list of $n$ distinct items (keys) satisfies a global distributional limit theorem. Fill and Janson proved results about the limiting distribution and the rate of convergence, and used these to prove a result part way towards a corresponding local limit theorem. In this paper we use a multi-round smoothing technique to prove the full local limit theorem.
Most previous studies of the sorting algorithm QuickSort have used the number of key comparisons as a measure of the cost of executing the algorithm. Here we suppose that the n independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) keys are each represented as a sequence of symbols from a probabilistic source and that QuickSort operates on individual symbols, and we measure the execution cost as the number of symbol comparisons. Assuming only a mild tameness condition on the source, we show that there is a limiting distribution for the number of symbol comparisons after normalization: first centering by the mean and then dividing by n. Additionally, under a condition that grows more restrictive as p increases, we have convergence of moments of orders p and smaller. In particular, we have convergence in distribution and convergence of moments of every order whenever the source is memoryless, that is, whenever each key is generated as an infinite string of i.i.d. symbols. This is somewhat surprising; even for the classical model that each key is an i.i.d. string of unbiased (fair) bits, the mean exhibits periodic fluctuations of order n.
The analyses of many algorithms and data structures (such as digital search trees) for searching and sorting are based on the representation of the keys involved as bit strings and so count the number of bit comparisons. On the other hand, the standard analyses of many other algorithms (such as Quicksort) are performed in terms of the number of key comparisons. We introduce the prospect of a fair comparison between algorithms of the two types by providing an average-case analysis of the number of bit comparisons required by Quicksort. Counting bit comparisons rather than key comparisons introduces an extra logarithmic factor to the asymptotic average total. We also provide a new algorithm, BitsQuick, that reduces this factor to constant order by eliminating needless bit comparisons.
We give upper and lower asymptotic bounds for the left tail and for the right tail of the continuous limiting QuickSort density f that are nearly matching in each tail. The bounds strengthen results from a paper of Svante Janson (2015) concerning the corresponding distribution function F. Furthermore, we obtain similar bounds on absolute values of derivatives of f of each order.
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