International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 14 (1991), Issue 3, Pages 545-551
doi:10.1155/S0161171291000741
Splaying a search tree in preorder takes linear time
Department of Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti 48197, Michigan, USA
Received 31 May 1990; Revised 1 November 1990
Copyright © 1991 R. Chaudhuri and H. Höft. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In this paper we prove that if the nodes of an arbitrary n-node binary
search tree T are splayed in the preorder sequence of T then the total time is O(n).
This is a special case of the splay tree traversal conjecture of Sleator and Tarjan.