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Partitions ( partition )

Definition

An instance P of the data type partition consists of a finite set of items (partition_item) and a partition of this set into blocks.

#include < LEDA/partition.h >

Creation

partition P creates an instance P of type partition and initializes it to the empty partition.

Operations

partition_item P.make_block() returns a new partition_item it and adds the block it to partition P.

partition_item P.find(partition_item p) returns a canonical item of the block that contains item p, i.e., iff P.same_block(p,q) then P.find(p) and P.find(q) return the same item.
Precondition p is an item in P.

int P.size(partition_item p) returns the size of the block containing p.

int P.number_of_blocks() returns the number of blocks in P.

bool P.same_block(partition_item p, partition_item q)
    returns true if p and q belong to the same block of partition P.
Precondition p and q are items in P.

void P.union_blocks(partition_item p, partition_item q)
    unites the blocks of partition P containing items p and q.
Precondition p and q are items in P.

void P.split(list<partition_item> L)
    turns all items in L to singleton blocks.
Precondition L is a union of blocks.

Implementation

Partitions are implemented by the union find algorithm with weighted union and path compression (cf. [77]). Any sequence of n make_block and m > = n other operations (except for split) takes time O(m $ \alpha$(m, n)). The cost of a split is proportional to the size of the blocks dismantled.

Example

Spanning Tree Algorithms (cf. section Graph Algorithms).


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