Binomial Heaps and Skew Binomial Heaps

Rene Meis, Finn Nielsen and Peter Lammich

28 October 2010

Abstract

We implement and prove correct binomial heaps and skew binomial heaps. Both are data-structures for priority queues. While binomial heaps have logarithmic findMin, deleteMin, insert, and meld operations, skew binomial heaps have constant time findMin, insert, and meld operations, and only the deleteMin-operation is logarithmic. This is achieved by using skew links to avoid cascading linking on insert-operations, and data-structural bootstrapping to get constant-time findMin and meld operations. Our implementation follows the paper by Brodal and Okasaki.
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