Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree
Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree
Description
LeetCode https://leetcode.cn/problems/lowest-common-ancestor-of-a-binary-tree/
Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.
According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes p and q as the lowest node in T that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”
Example 1:
graph TD
A((3))
B((5))
C((1))
D((6))
E((2))
F((0))
G((8))
H((7))
I((4))
A --> B
A --> C
B --> D
B --> E
C --> F
C --> G
E --> H
E --> I
Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 1
Output: 3
Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 1 is 3.
Example 2:
graph TD
A((3))
B((5))
C((1))
D((6))
E((2))
F((0))
G((8))
H((7))
I((4))
A --> B
A --> C
B --> D
B --> E
C --> F
C --> G
E --> H
E --> I
Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 4
Output: 5
Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 4 is 5, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.
Example 3:
Input: root = [1,2], p = 1, q = 2
Output: 1
Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [2, 105].
- -109 <= Node.val <= 109
- All Node.val are unique.
- p != q
- p and q will exist in the tree.
Solution
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/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* public class TreeNode {
* int val;
* TreeNode left;
* TreeNode right;
* TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
* }
*/
class Solution {
public TreeNode lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p, TreeNode q) {
if (root == null || p == root || q == root) {
return root;
}
TreeNode left = lowestCommonAncestor(root.left, p, q);
TreeNode right = lowestCommonAncestor(root.right, p, q);
if (left != null && right != null) {
return root;
}
return left == null ? right : left;
}
}
Complexity
- Time = O(n)
- Space = O(height)
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