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Syracuse University

1992

Adjacent transposition sorting

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A Non-Deterministric Parallel Sorting Algorithm, Xue Shirley Li, F. Lockwood Morris Mar 1992

A Non-Deterministric Parallel Sorting Algorithm, Xue Shirley Li, F. Lockwood Morris

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Technical Reports

A miniswap Si,1 ≤ i < n, compares two adjacent keys Пi, Пi+1 in the sequence (П1, ... , Пn), and transposes them if they are out of order. A full sweep is any composition of all n - 1 possible miniswaps. We prove that the composition of any n- 1 full sweeps is a sorting function.