An implicit data structure supporting insertion, deletion, and search in \(O(\log ^ 2\,n)\) time (Q579942)

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An implicit data structure supporting insertion, deletion, and search in \(O(\log ^ 2\,n)\) time
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    An implicit data structure supporting insertion, deletion, and search in \(O(\log ^ 2\,n)\) time (English)
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    We introduce a data structure that requires only one pointer for every k data values and supports searches in O(log n) time and insertions and deletions in \(O(k+\log n)\) time. By choosing k to be O(log n), pointers can be encoded into the relative order of data values and this technique can be used to support insert, delete and search in \(O(\log^ 2 n)\) time while using only the storage needed for the data.
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    data structure
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    insertions
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    deletions
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    pointers
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