Conference paper
FLIPPING PERSUASIVELY IN CONSTANT EXPECTED TIME.
Cynthia Dwork, David Shmoys, et al.
FOCS 1985
Two methods are described for obtaining lower bounds on the cost of accessing a sequence of nodes of a symmetrically ordered binary search tree, where rotations can be done on the tree. The bounds apply to offline as well as online algorithms.
Cynthia Dwork, David Shmoys, et al.
FOCS 1985