Approximating the limiting Quicksort distribution

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The limiting distribution of the normalized number of comparisons used by Quicksort to sort an array of n numbers is known to be the unique fixed point with zero mean of a certain distributional transformation S. We study the convergence to the limiting distribution of the sequence of distributions obtained by iterating the transformation S, beginning with a (nearly) arbitrary starting distribution. We demonstrate geometrically fast convergence for various metrics and discuss some implications for numerical calculations of the limiting Quicksort distribution. Finally, we give companion lower bounds which show that the convergence is not faster than geometric.
30 pages. See also http://www.mts.jhu.edu/~fill/ and http://www.math.uu.se/~svante/ . Submitted for publication in January, 2001

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Probability, 68W40 (primary), 68P10, 60E05, 60E10, 60F05 (secondary)

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/61557

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https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105246
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