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The complexity of the problem of selecting the k-th element of a sorted matrix is known. In this note we show a lower bound for such a problem in sorted X+Y. This lower bound is tight since the upper bound for sorted matrices holds for sorted X+Y.
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Cosnard, M., Ferreira, A.G. (1991). A tight lower bound for selection in sorted X+Y. In: Dehne, F., Fiala, F., Koczkodaj, W.W. (eds) Advances in Computing and Information — ICCI '91. ICCI 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54029-6_162
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