Michael Fuchs ; Chung-Kuei Lee ; Helmut Prodinger - Approximate Counting via the Poisson-Laplace-Mellin Method

dmtcs:2980 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2012, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AQ, 23rd Intern. Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA'12) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.2980
Approximate Counting via the Poisson-Laplace-Mellin MethodArticle

Authors: Michael Fuchs 1; Chung-Kuei Lee 1; Helmut Prodinger 2

  • 1 Department of Applied Mathematics [Hsinchu]
  • 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences [Matieland, Stellenbosch Uni.]

Approximate counting is an algorithm that provides a count of a huge number of objects within an error tolerance. The first detailed analysis of this algorithm was given by Flajolet. In this paper, we propose a new analysis via the Poisson-Laplace-Mellin approach, a method devised for analyzing shape parameters of digital search trees in a recent paper of Hwang et al. Our approach yields a different and more compact expression for the periodic function from the asymptotic expansion of the variance. We show directly that our expression coincides with the one obtained by Flajolet. Moreover, we apply our method to variations of approximate counting, too.


Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AQ, 23rd Intern. Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA'12)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2012
Imported on: January 31, 2017
Keywords: approximate counting,digital search tree,JS-admissibility,Laplace transform,Mellin transform,[INFO.INFO-DS] Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS],[INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM],[MATH.MATH-CO] Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO],[INFO.INFO-CG] Computer Science [cs]/Computational Geometry [cs.CG]

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