LeetCode_Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.

According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes p and q as the lowest node in T that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”

Constraints

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [2, 105].
• -109 <= Node.val <= 109
• All Node.val are unique.
• p != q
• p and q will exist in the tree.

접근법

DFS 방식으로 트리를 순회하다가 p 또는 q를 만나면 node를 반환.

최소 공통 조상은 두 하위 트리의 재귀가 null이 아닌 node.

Solution

const lowestCommonAncestor = function (root, p, q) {
  if (!root || root === p || root === q) return root;
  const left = lowestCommonAncestor(root.left, p, q);
  const right = lowestCommonAncestor(root.right, p, q);
  return left ? (right ? root : left) : right;
};