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Improved Online Sorting

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Jubayer Nirjhor *
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Nicole Wein
DOI:10.1007/978-3-032-06706-7_13delete
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Abstract

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We study the online sorting problem, where n real numbers arrive in an online fashion, and the algorithm must immediately place each number into an array of size (1 + e)n before seeing the next number. After all n numbers are placed into the array, the cost is defined as the sum over the absolute differences of all n - 1 pairs of adjacent numbers in the array, ignoring empty array cells. Aamand, Abrahamsen, Beretta, and Kleist introduced the problem and obtained a deterministic algorithm with cost 2O v log n center dot log log n+log e-1 , and a lower bound of O(log n/ log log n) for deterministic algorithms. We obtain a deterministic4 algorithm with quasi-polylogarithmic cost e- 1 log n O(log log n). Concurrent and independent work by Azar, Panigrahi, and Vardi achieves polylogarithmic cost O(e- 1 log2 n).
Keywords:
Online algorithms
Sorting
Data structures

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APPROXIMATION AND ONLINE ALGORITHMS, WAOA 2025
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university of michigan system
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9.1W
Papers: 8.6W
Citations: 133