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897. Increasing Order Search Tree

Description

Given the root of a binary search tree, rearrange the tree in in-order so that the leftmost node in the tree is now the root of the tree, and every node has no left child and only one right child.

 

Example 1:

Input: root = [5,3,6,2,4,null,8,1,null,null,null,7,9]
Output: [1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,5,null,6,null,7,null,8,null,9]

Example 2:

Input: root = [5,1,7]
Output: [1,null,5,null,7]

 

Constraints:

  • The number of nodes in the given tree will be in the range [1, 100].
  • 0 <= Node.val <= 1000

Solutions

Solution 1: DFS In-order Traversal

We define a virtual node $dummy$, initially the right child of $dummy$ points to the root node $root$, and a pointer $prev$ points to $dummy$.

We perform an in-order traversal on the binary search tree. During the traversal, each time we visit a node, we point the right child of $prev$ to it, then set the left child of the current node to null, and assign the current node to $prev$ for the next traversal.

After the traversal ends, the original binary search tree is modified into a singly linked list with only right child nodes. We then return the right child of the virtual node $dummy$.

The time complexity is $O(n)$, and the space complexity is $O(n)$. Here, $n$ is the number of nodes in the binary search tree.

  • /**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode() {}
 *     TreeNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
 *     TreeNode(int val, TreeNode left, TreeNode right) {
 *         this.val = val;
 *         this.left = left;
 *         this.right = right;
 *     }
 * }
 */
class Solution {
    private TreeNode prev;
    public TreeNode increasingBST(TreeNode root) {
        TreeNode dummy = new TreeNode(0, null, root);
        prev = dummy;
        dfs(root);
        return dummy.right;
    }

    private void dfs(TreeNode root) {
        if (root == null) {
            return;
        }
        dfs(root.left);
        prev.right = root;
        root.left = null;
        prev = root;
        dfs(root.right);
    }
}

  • /**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode() : val(0), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 *     TreeNode(int x, TreeNode *left, TreeNode *right) : val(x), left(left), right(right) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    TreeNode* increasingBST(TreeNode* root) {
        TreeNode* dummy = new TreeNode(0, nullptr, root);
        TreeNode* prev = dummy;
        function<void(TreeNode*)> dfs = [&](TreeNode* root) {
            if (!root) {
                return;
            }
            dfs(root->left);
            prev->right = root;
            root->left = nullptr;
            prev = root;
            dfs(root->right);
        };
        dfs(root);
        return dummy->right;
    }
};

  • # Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode:
#     def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
#         self.val = val
#         self.left = left
#         self.right = right
class Solution:
    def increasingBST(self, root: TreeNode) -> TreeNode:
        def dfs(root):
            if root is None:
                return
            nonlocal prev
            dfs(root.left)
            prev.right = root
            root.left = None
            prev = root
            dfs(root.right)

        dummy = prev = TreeNode(right=root)
        dfs(root)
        return dummy.right


  • /**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * type TreeNode struct {
 *     Val int
 *     Left *TreeNode
 *     Right *TreeNode
 * }
 */
func increasingBST(root *TreeNode) *TreeNode {
	dummy := &TreeNode{Val: 0, Right: root}
	prev := dummy
	var dfs func(root *TreeNode)
	dfs = func(root *TreeNode) {
		if root == nil {
			return
		}
		dfs(root.Left)
		prev.Right = root
		root.Left = nil
		prev = root
		dfs(root.Right)
	}
	dfs(root)
	return dummy.Right
}

  • /**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * class TreeNode {
 *     val: number
 *     left: TreeNode | null
 *     right: TreeNode | null
 *     constructor(val?: number, left?: TreeNode | null, right?: TreeNode | null) {
 *         this.val = (val===undefined ? 0 : val)
 *         this.left = (left===undefined ? null : left)
 *         this.right = (right===undefined ? null : right)
 *     }
 * }
 */

function increasingBST(root: TreeNode | null): TreeNode | null {
    const dummy = new TreeNode((right = root));
    let prev = dummy;
    const dfs = (root: TreeNode | null) => {
        if (!root) {
            return;
        }
        dfs(root.left);
        prev.right = root;
        root.left = null;
        prev = root;
        dfs(root.right);
    };
    dfs(root);
    return dummy.right;
}

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