Minimum Height Trees

For a undirected graph with tree characteristics, we can choose any node as the root. The result graph is then a rooted tree. Among all possible rooted trees, those with minimum height are called minimum height trees (MHTs). Given such a graph, write a function to find all the MHTs and return a list of their root labels.

Format The graph contains n nodes which are labeled from 0 to n - 1. You will be given the number n and a list of undirected edges (each edge is a pair of labels).

You can assume that no duplicate edges will appear in edges. Since all edges are undirected, [0, 1] is the same as [1, 0] and thus will not appear together in edges.

Example 1:

Given n = 4, edges = [[1, 0], [1, 2], [1, 3]]

    0
    |
    1
   / \
  2   3

return [1]

Example 2:

Given n = 6, edges = [[0, 3], [1, 3], [2, 3], [4, 3], [5, 4]]

 0  1  2
  \ | /
    3
    |
    4
    |
    5

return [3, 4]

Hint:

How many MHTs can a graph have at most?

Note:

(1) According to the definition of tree on Wikipedia: “a tree is an undirected graph in which any two vertices are connected by exactly one path. In other words, any connected graph without simple cycles is a tree.”

(2) The height of a rooted tree is the number of edges on the longest downward path between the root and a leaf.

Solution:

public class Solution {
    public List<Integer> findMinHeightTrees(int n, int[][] edges) {
        if(n==1){
            List<Integer> ans = new ArrayList<>();
            ans.add(0);
            return ans;
        }
        List<Set<Integer>> graph = new ArrayList<>();
        for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
            graph.add(new HashSet<>());
        for(int[] e : edges){
            graph.get(e[0]).add(e[1]);
            graph.get(e[1]).add(e[0]);
        }
        Queue<Integer> queue = new LinkedList<>();
        for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
            if(graph.get(i).size()==1)
                queue.offer(i);
        while(n>2){ /* use n instead of size() */
            n -= queue.size();
            Queue<Integer> next = new LinkedList<>();
            while(!queue.isEmpty()){
                Integer u = queue.poll();
                Integer v = graph.get(u).iterator().next();
                graph.get(v).remove(u);
                if(graph.get(v).size()==1) next.offer(v);
                graph.get(u).clear();
            }
            queue = next;
        }
        return (List)queue;
    }
}
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