On the (k, r)-Quicksort on the fly process
摘要
The (k, r)-Quicksort on the fly is a sorting algorithm, which provides successively first the smallest, then the second smallest, and so on of a given set of size n. Let X(n, l) be the number of comparisons (respectively the time) up to the lth smallest shown. The correctly normalized process
The method of proof might be interesting in itself. It uses the contraction method and weighted branching processes.