The complexity of sorting with pointer machines and
successor-predecessor random access machines is studied. The size of
the problem is defined as the length of the problem string. A linear
time algorithm is achieved for sorting by pointer machines. For
successor-predecessor random access machines linear time is sufficient
in a special case.
@article{PK1985J,
author = {Martti Penttonen and Jyrki Katajainen},
title = {Notes on the complexity of sorting in abstract machines},
journaltitle = {BIT},
volume = {25},
number = {4},
year = {1985},
pages = {611--622},
}