# Posts tagged as “graph”

There is an undirected star graph consisting of n nodes labeled from 1 to n. A star graph is a graph where there is one center node and exactly n - 1 edges that connect the center node with every other node.

You are given a 2D integer array edges where each edges[i] = [ui, vi] indicates that there is an edge between the nodes ui and vi. Return the center of the given star graph.

Example 1:

Input: edges = [[1,2],[2,3],[4,2]]
Output: 2
Explanation: As shown in the figure above, node 2 is connected to every other node, so 2 is the center.


Example 2:

Input: edges = [[1,2],[5,1],[1,3],[1,4]]
Output: 1


Constraints:

• 3 <= n <= 105
• edges.length == n - 1
• edges[i].length == 2
• 1 <= ui, vi <= n
• ui != vi
• The given edges represent a valid star graph.

## Solution: Graph / Hashtable

Count the degree of each node, return the one with n-1 degrees.

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n)

## C++

Since the center node must appear in each edge, we just need to find the mode of edges[0] + edges[1]

Time complexity: O(1)
Space complexity: O(1)

## Python

There is an undirected weighted connected graph. You are given a positive integer n which denotes that the graph has n nodes labeled from 1 to n, and an array edges where each edges[i] = [ui, vi, weighti] denotes that there is an edge between nodes ui and vi with weight equal to weighti.

A path from node start to node end is a sequence of nodes [z0, z1,z2, ..., zk] such that z0 = start and zk = end and there is an edge between zi and zi+1 where 0 <= i <= k-1.

The distance of a path is the sum of the weights on the edges of the path. Let distanceToLastNode(x) denote the shortest distance of a path between node n and node x. A restricted path is a path that also satisfies that distanceToLastNode(zi) > distanceToLastNode(zi+1) where 0 <= i <= k-1.

Return the number of restricted paths from node 1 to node n. Since that number may be too large, return it modulo 109 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: n = 5, edges = [[1,2,3],[1,3,3],[2,3,1],[1,4,2],[5,2,2],[3,5,1],[5,4,10]]
Output: 3
Explanation: Each circle contains the node number in black and its distanceToLastNode value in blue. The three restricted paths are:
1) 1 --> 2 --> 5
2) 1 --> 2 --> 3 --> 5
3) 1 --> 3 --> 5


Example 2:

Input: n = 7, edges = [[1,3,1],[4,1,2],[7,3,4],[2,5,3],[5,6,1],[6,7,2],[7,5,3],[2,6,4]]
Output: 1
Explanation: Each circle contains the node number in black and its distanceToLastNode value in blue. The only restricted path is 1 --> 3 --> 7.


Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 2 * 104
• n - 1 <= edges.length <= 4 * 104
• edges[i].length == 3
• 1 <= ui, vi <= n
• ui != vi
• 1 <= weighti <= 105
• There is at most one edge between any two nodes.
• There is at least one path between any two nodes.

## Solution: Dijkstra + DFS w/ memoization

Find shortest path from n to all the nodes.
paths(u) = sum(paths(v)) if dist[u] > dist[v] and (u, v) has an edge
return paths(1)

Time complexity: O(ElogV + V + E)
Space complexity: O(V + E)

Combined

## C++

You are given an undirected graph represented by an integer n, which is the number of nodes, and edges, where edges[i] = [ui, vi] which indicates that there is an undirected edge between ui and vi. You are also given an integer array queries.

The answer to the jth query is the number of pairs of nodes (a, b) that satisfy the following conditions:

• a < b
• cnt is strictly greater than queries[j], where cnt is the number of edges incident to a or b.

Return an array answers such that answers.length == queries.length and answers[j] is the answer of the jth query.

Note that there can be repeated edges.

Example 1:

Input: n = 4, edges = [[1,2],[2,4],[1,3],[2,3],[2,1]], queries = [2,3]
Output: [6,5]
Explanation: The number of edges incident to at least one of each pair is shown above.


Example 2:

Input: n = 5, edges = [[1,5],[1,5],[3,4],[2,5],[1,3],[5,1],[2,3],[2,5]], queries = [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: [10,10,9,8,6]


Constraints:

• 2 <= n <= 2 * 104
• 1 <= edges.length <= 105
• 1 <= ui, vi <= n
• ui != vi
• 1 <= queries.length <= 20
• 0 <= queries[j] < edges.length

## Solution 1: Pre-compute

Pre-compute # of pairs with total edges >= k. where k is from 0 to max_degree * 2 + 1.

Time complexity: (|node_degrees|2 + V + E)
Space complexity: O(V+E)

## C++

You are given an undirected graph. You are given an integer n which is the number of nodes in the graph and an array edges, where each edges[i] = [ui, vi] indicates that there is an undirected edge between ui and vi.

connected trio is a set of three nodes where there is an edge between every pair of them.

The degree of a connected trio is the number of edges where one endpoint is in the trio, and the other is not.

Return the minimum degree of a connected trio in the graph, or -1 if the graph has no connected trios.

Example 1:

Input: n = 6, edges = [[1,2],[1,3],[3,2],[4,1],[5,2],[3,6]]
Output: 3
Explanation: There is exactly one trio, which is [1,2,3]. The edges that form its degree are bolded in the figure above.


Example 2:

Input: n = 7, edges = [[1,3],[4,1],[4,3],[2,5],[5,6],[6,7],[7,5],[2,6]]
Output: 0
Explanation: There are exactly three trios:
1) [1,4,3] with degree 0.
2) [2,5,6] with degree 2.
3) [5,6,7] with degree 2.


Constraints:

• 2 <= n <= 400
• edges[i].length == 2
• 1 <= edges.length <= n * (n-1) / 2
• 1 <= ui, vi <= n
• ui != vi
• There are no repeated edges.

## Solution: Brute Force

Try all possible Trios.

Time complexity: O(n^3)
Space complexity: O(n^2)

## C++

On a social network consisting of m users and some friendships between users, two users can communicate with each other if they know a common language.

You are given an integer n, an array languages, and an array friendships where:

• There are n languages numbered 1 through n,
• languages[i] is the set of languages the i​​​​​​th​​​​ user knows, and
• friendships[i] = [u​​​​​​i​​​, v​​​​​​i] denotes a friendship between the users u​​​​​​​​​​​i​​​​​ and vi.

You can choose one language and teach it to some users so that all friends can communicate with each other. Return the minimum number of users you need to teach.Note that friendships are not transitive, meaning if x is a friend of y and y is a friend of z, this doesn’t guarantee that x is a friend of z.

Example 1:

Input: n = 2, languages = [[1],[2],[1,2]], friendships = [[1,2],[1,3],[2,3]]
Output: 1
Explanation: You can either teach user 1 the second language or user 2 the first language.


Example 2:

Input: n = 3, languages = [[2],[1,3],[1,2],[3]], friendships = [[1,4],[1,2],[3,4],[2,3]]
Output: 2
Explanation: Teach the third language to users 1 and 2, yielding two users to teach.


Constraints:

• 2 <= n <= 500
• languages.length == m
• 1 <= m <= 500
• 1 <= languages[i].length <= n
• 1 <= languages[i][j] <= n
• 1 <= u​​​​​​i < v​​​​​​i <= languages.length
• 1 <= friendships.length <= 500
• All tuples (u​​​​​i, v​​​​​​i) are unique
• languages[i] contains only unique values

## Solution: Brute Force

Enumerate all languages and see which one is the best.

If two friends speak a common language, we can skip counting them.

Time complexity: O(m*(n+|friendship|))
Space complexity: O(m*n)