A. Andersson and M. Thorup. Tight(er) Worst-case Bounds on Dynamic Searching and Priority Queues.
To appear in Proc ACM STOC'00

We introduce a novel technique for converting static polynomial space search structures for ordered sets into fully-dynamic linear space data structures. Based on this we present optimal bounds for dynamic integer searching, including finger search, and exponentially improved bounds for priority queues.

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