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What and Who

Calculating probabilistic properties of trees without Jensen inequality

Piotr Berman
Pennsylvania State University
AG1 Mittagsseminar (own work)
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4  
AG Audience
English

Date, Time and Location

Thursday, 27 September 2001
13:30
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MPII
024
Saarbrücken

Abstract

A simple probabilistic technique is presented that allows for much

more succint proofs of probabilistic properties of trees. One application
is of interest for didactic reasons:
the average depth of binary search tree is shown
to be below 3 ln n, and the proof is both twice shorter than shortest
published proof, and more elementary.

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Piotr Krysta
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