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Individual Displacements in Hashing with Coalesced Chains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

SVANTE JANSON
SVANTE JANSON*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, PO Box 480, S-751 06 Uppsala, Sweden (e-mail: svante.janson@math.uu.sehttp://www.math.uu.se/~svante/)
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Abstract

We study the asymptotic distribution of the displacements in hashing with coalesced chains, for both late-insertion and early-insertion. Asymptotic formulas for means and variances follow. The method uses Poissonization and some stochastic calculus.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 17 , Issue 6 , November 2008 , pp. 799 - 814
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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