684 Redundant Connection

1. Question

n this problem, a tree is an undirected graph that is connected and has no cycles.

The given input is a graph that started as a tree with N nodes (with distinct values 1, 2, ..., N), with one additional edge added. The added edge has two different vertices chosen from 1 to N, and was not an edge that already existed.

The resulting graph is given as a 2D-array ofedges. Each element ofedgesis a pair[u, v]withu < v, that represents an undirected edge connecting nodesuandv.

Return an edge that can be removed so that the resulting graph is a tree of N nodes. If there are multiple answers, return the answer that occurs last in the given 2D-array. The answer edge[u, v]should be in the same format, withu < v.

Example 1:

Input: [[1,2], [1,3], [2,3]]

Output: [2,3]

Explanation:
The given undirected graph will be like this:
  1
 / \
2 - 3

Example 2:

Note:

The size of the input 2D-array will be between 3 and 1000.

Every integer represented in the 2D-array will be between 1 and N, where N is the size of the input array.

2. Implementation

(1) Union Find

3. Time & Space Complexity

Union Find: 时间复杂度O(n), 空间复杂度O(n)

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