LeetCode - Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree-优快云博客

本文探讨了在二叉树中寻找两个节点的最低公共祖先(LCA)的问题，提供了详细的算法思路及其实现代码。通过遍历树，当根节点匹配任一给定节点时，根即为LCA；若不匹配，则递归左子树和右子树，根据返回结果确定LCA位置。

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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).”

Given the following binary tree:  root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4]

        _______3______
       /              \
    ___5__          ___1__
   /      \        /      \
   6      _2       0       8
         /  \
         7   4
Example 1:

Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 1
Output: 3
Explanation: The LCA of of nodes 5 and 1 is 3.
Example 2:

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.
Note:

All of the nodes' values will be unique.
p and q are different and both values will exist in the binary tree.

The idea is to traverse the tree starting from root. If any of the given keys (n1 and n2) matches with root, then root is LCA (assuming that both keys are present). If root doesn’t match with any of the keys, we recur for left and right subtree. The node which has one key present in its left subtree and the other key present in right subtree is the LCA. If both keys lie in left subtree, then left subtree has LCA also, otherwise LCA lies in right subtree.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/lowest-common-ancestor-binary-tree-set-1/

/**
 * 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){
            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 != null && right != null){
            return root;
        }
        if(left != null){
            return left;
        }
        else {
            return right;
        }
    }
}

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/incrediblechangshuo/p/9741776.html