1676. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree IV

Description

Given the root of a binary tree and an array of TreeNode objects nodes, return the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of all the nodes in nodes. All the nodes will exist in the tree, and all values of the tree's nodes are unique.

Extending the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: "The lowest common ancestor of n nodes p1, p2, ..., pn in a binary tree T is the lowest node that has every pi as a descendant (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself) for every valid i". A descendant of a node x is a node y that is on the path from node x to some leaf node.

Constraints

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 104].

• -109 <= Node.val <= 109

• All Node.val are unique.

• All nodes[i] will exist in the tree.

• All nodes[i] are distinct.

Approach

Links

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Examples

Example 1

Input: root = [3, 5, 1, 6, 2, 0, 8, null, null, 7, 4], nodes = [4, 7]

Output: 2

Explanation: The lowest common ancestor of nodes 4 and 7 is node 2.

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

Solutions

Solution 1

/**
 * Time complexity : O(N)
 * Space complexity : O(N)
 */

class Solution {
    private Set<TreeNode> nodesSet;
    
    public TreeNode lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode root, TreeNode[] nodes) {
        nodesSet = new HashSet(Arrays.asList(nodes));
        return lcaHelper(root);
    }
    
    private TreeNode lcaHelper(TreeNode root) {
        if(root == null || nodesSet.contains(root)) {
            return root;
        }
        TreeNode left = lcaHelper(root.left);
        TreeNode right = lcaHelper(root.right);
        
        if(left != null && right != null) {
            return root;
        }
        
        return (left != null)? left: right;
    }
}

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