Medium
Find Diameter Endpoints of a Tree — C++
Full explanation · Time O(n) · Space O(n)
// Time: O(n)
// Space: O(n)
// tree diameter, bfs
class Solution {
public:
string findSpecialNodes(int n, vector<vector<int>>& edges) {
vector<vector<int>> adj(size(edges) + 1);
for (const auto& e : edges) {
adj[e[0]].emplace_back(e[1]);
adj[e[1]].emplace_back(e[0]);
}
const auto& bfs = [&](int u) {
vector<bool> lookup(size(adj));
lookup[u] = true;
vector<int> q = {u}, new_q;
while (!empty(q)) {
new_q.clear();
for (const auto& u : q) {
for (const auto& v : adj[u]) {
if (lookup[v]) {
continue;
}
lookup[v] = true;
new_q.emplace_back(v);
}
}
swap(q, new_q);
}
return new_q;
};
string result(n, '0');
const auto& far = bfs(0);
for (const auto& u : far) {
result[u] = '1';
}
for (const auto& u : bfs(far[0])) {
result[u] = '1';
}
return result;
}
};