東京大学 情報理工学系研究科 コンピュータ科学専攻 2016年2月実施 問題3

标签：

• Tokyo-University
• Binary-Search-Tree-Insertion-and-Deletion
• Balanced-Binary-Search-Tree-Height-Bounds

Author

kainoj, 祭音Myyura

Description

Answer the following questions concerning binary search trees. Here, the height of a node is defined as the maximum of the graph distance from the node to one of its descendant leaf nodes. For example, a node with no children is of height 0. The height of a tree is defined as the height of its root.

(1) Suppose that we have the following binary search tree.

         9
       /   \
      4     12
     / \   /  \
    2   7 10  14
       /
      6

Let us apply the following operations to the above tree, in the shown order.

• (i) Insert 3
• (ii) Insert 8
• (iii) Delete 4
• (iv) Delete 9

Depict the state of the tree after each operation.

(2) Answer the minimum and maximum tree heights of a binary search tree with $n$ nodes.

We call a binary search tree balanced if every node of it satisfies the following conditions:

• In case the node has two children, the heights of the left and right child subtrees differ by at most $1$.
• In case the node has only one child, the height of the child subtree is $0$.

Answer the following questions.

(3) Answer the minimum and maximum tree heights of a balanced binary search tree with $7$ nodes. Depict a tree with the maximum height, and one with the minimum height.

(4) Answer the minimum tree height of a balanced binary search tree with $n$ nodes.

(5) Show that the height of a balanced binary search tree with $n$ nodes is no more than $2\log_2 n$.

Kai

(1)

(i)

          9
       /    \
      4      12
    /   \    /  \
   2     7  10  14
    \   /
     3 6

(ii)

          9
       /     \
      4       12
    /   \    /  \
   2     7  10  14
    \   / \
     3 6   8

(iii)

          9
       /     \
      3       12
    /   \    /  \
   2     7  10  14
        / \
       6   8

(iv)

          8
       /     \
      3       12
    /   \    /  \
   2     7  10  14
        /
       6   

(2)

Minimum height of BST with $n$ nodes is $\lfloor \log_2n\rfloor$. Maximum height: $n-1$.

(3)

AVL tree with $7$ nodes has min. height of $2$ (full binary tree), and max. height of $3$. See following:

            3
        /       \
       2         1
     /   \     /
    1     0   0
   /
  0

(4)

Just $\lfloor \log_2n\rfloor$ – it's a full binary tree.

(5)

Show that the height of a balanced binary tree (AVL) with $n$ nodes is no more than $2\log_2n$.

Let's consider the smallest possible AVL trees wrt number of nodes. Let $N(h)$ indicate minimum number of nodes in a balanced tree of height $h$. The minimum tree of $n$ nodes and height $h$ consists of a root, a minimum subtree of of height $h-1$ and a minimum subtree of height $h-2$:

$$\begin{aligned} n = N(h) &= 1 + N(h-1) + N(h-2) \\ &\geq 1 + 2 \cdot N(h-2) && \text{because } N(h) > N(h-1) \\ &> 2 \cdot N(h-2) \\ &\geq 2^{\frac{h}{2}} \end{aligned}$$

Taking log both sides: $h \leq 2\cdot \log_2(n)$.