Bitonic Sort

• Key operation:

  • rearrange a bitonic sequence to ordered

• Bitonic Sequence

  • sequence of elements <a0, a1, … , an-1>
    • There exists i such that <a0, … ,ai> is monotonically increasing and <ai+1,… , an-1> is monotonically decreasing or
    • There exists a cyclic shift of indicies such that the above is satisfied.

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