Regular node
Min pointer
Marked (will cascade on next decrease-key)
Selected
Newly inserted / just extracted
O(1) insert, find-min, decrease-key, union; and O(log n) amortized extract-min.
It powers the optimal O(E + V log V) Dijkstra.
Insert adds a new single-node tree to the root list — no restructuring.
Extract-Min removes the min, merges its children into the root list, then consolidates the heap so no two root-list trees have the same degree (link by degree).
Decrease-Key cuts the node from its parent if the heap-order is violated, adds it to the root list, and propagates cascading cuts up the ancestry of marked nodes.
Mark tracks whether a node has lost a child since it was last made a root — second loss triggers a cascading cut.