[Leetcode] 236. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree 解题报告

本文介绍了一种寻找二叉树中两个指定节点最低公共祖先的有效算法。通过递归搜索左右子树,若目标节点分布在不同子树则当前根节点即为所求。

题目

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 v and w as the lowest node in T that has both v and w as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”

        _______3______
       /              \
    ___5__          ___1__
   /      \        /      \
   6      _2       0       8
         /  \
         7   4

For example, the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of nodes 5 and 1 is 3. Another example is LCA of nodes 5 and 4 is 5, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

思路

相比于上一道题目,这道题目的难度确实增加了不少,当然解决方法也有不少。这里我给出一道在网上看到的非常巧妙的方法:我们分别在root的左右子树中搜索p和q。如果在左子树中搜索到了p或者q,就将其结点赋给left;如果在右子树中搜索到了p或者q,就将其结点赋给right。而如果没有搜索到,则返回NULL。这样如果left和right都不为NULL,则说明p和q必然位于不同的子树上,则root就是最低公共祖先;否则left和right中那个不为NULL的就是最低公共祖先(想一想是为什么呢?^_^答案是我们在递归的时候,返回的结点要么是p,要么是q,要么就是已经确定的p和q的最低公共祖先,请参考函数中的四个返回点进一步理解。)

代码

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    TreeNode* lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode* root, TreeNode* p, TreeNode* q) {
        if (!root || !p || !q) {
            return NULL;
        }
        if (root == p || root == q) {
            return root;
        }
        TreeNode *left = lowestCommonAncestor(root->left, p, q);
        TreeNode *right = lowestCommonAncestor(root->right, p, q);
        if (left && right) {
            return root;
        }
        return left ? left : right;
    }
};

以下是C#中二叉树的lowest common ancestor的源代码: ```csharp using System; public class Node { public int value; public Node left; public Node right; public Node(int value) { this.value = value; this.left = null; this.right = null; } } public class BinaryTree { public Node root; public BinaryTree() { this.root = null; } public Node LowestCommonAncestor(Node node, int value1, int value2) { if (node == null) { return null; } if (node.value == value1 || node.value == value2) { return node; } Node left = LowestCommonAncestor(node.left, value1, value2); Node right = LowestCommonAncestor(node.right, value1, value2); if (left != null && right != null) { return node; } return (left != null) ? left : right; } } public class Program { public static void Main() { BinaryTree tree = new BinaryTree(); tree.root = new Node(1); tree.root.left = new Node(2); tree.root.right = new Node(3); tree.root.left.left = new Node(4); tree.root.left.right = new Node(5); tree.root.right.left = new Node(6); tree.root.right.right = new Node(7); Node lca = tree.LowestCommonAncestor(tree.root, 4, 5); Console.WriteLine("Lowest Common Ancestor of 4 and 5: " + lca.value); lca = tree.LowestCommonAncestor(tree.root, 4, 6); Console.WriteLine("Lowest Common Ancestor of 4 and 6: " + lca.value); lca = tree.LowestCommonAncestor(tree.root, 3, 4); Console.WriteLine("Lowest Common Ancestor of 3 and 4: " + lca.value); lca = tree.LowestCommonAncestor(tree.root, 2, 4); Console.WriteLine("Lowest Common Ancestor of 2 and 4: " + lca.value); } } ``` 在上面的代码中,我们定义了一个Node类和一个BinaryTree类。我们使用BinaryTree类来创建二叉树,并实现了一个LowestCommonAncestor方法来计算二叉树中给定两个节点的最近公共祖先。 在LowestCommonAncestor方法中,我们首先检查给定节点是否为null或与给定值之一匹配。如果是,则返回该节点。否则,我们递归地在左子树和右子树上调用LowestCommonAncestor方法,并检查它们的返回值。如果左子树和右子树的返回值都不为null,则当前节点是它们的最近公共祖先。否则,我们返回非null的那个子树的返回值。 在Main方法中,我们创建了一个二叉树,并测试了LowestCommonAncestor方法的几个不同输入。
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