Dynamic connectivity is a data structure that dynamically maintains the information about thee connected components of graph. In simple words suppose there is a graph G(V, E) in which no. of vertices V is constant but no. of edges E is variable. There are three ways in which we can change the number of edges
- Incremental Connectivity : Edges are only added to the graph.
- Decremental Connectivity : Edges are only deleted from the graph.
- Fully Dynamic Connectivity : Edges can both be deleted and added to the graph.
In this article only Incremental connectivity is discussed. There are mainly two operations that need to be handled.
- An edge is added to the graph.
- Information about two nodes x and y whether they are in the same connected components or not.
Example:
Input : V = 7
Number of operations = 11
1 0 1
2 0 1
2 1 2
1 0 2
2 0 2
2 2 3
2 3 4
1 0 5
2 4 5
2 5 6
1 2 6
Note: 7 represents number of nodes,
11 represents number of queries.
There are two types of queries
Type 1 : 1 x y in this if the node
x and y are connected print
Yes else No
Type 2 : 2 x y in this add an edge
between node x and y
Output : No
Yes
No
Yes
Explanation :
Initially there are no edges so node 0 and 1
will be disconnected so answer will be No
Node 0 and 2 will be connected through node
1 so answer will be Yes similarly for other
queries we can find whether two nodes are
connected or not
To solve the problems of incremental connectivity disjoint data structure is used. Here each connected component represents a set and if the two nodes belong to the same set it means that they are connected.
Implementation is given below here we are using union by rank and path compression
C++
// C++ implementation of incremental connectivity#include<bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std; // Finding the root of node iint root(int arr[], int i){ while (arr[i] != i) { arr[i] = arr[arr[i]]; i = arr[i]; } return i;} // union of two nodes a and bvoid weighted_union(int arr[], int rank[], int a, int b){ int root_a = root (arr, a); int root_b = root (arr, b); // union based on rank if (rank[root_a] < rank[root_b]) { arr[root_a] = arr[root_b]; rank[root_b] += rank[root_a]; } else { arr[root_b] = arr[root_a]; rank[root_a] += rank[root_b]; }} // Returns true if two nodes have same rootbool areSame(int arr[], int a, int b){ return (root(arr, a) == root(arr, b));} // Performing an operation according to query typevoid query(int type, int x, int y, int arr[], int rank[]){ // type 1 query means checking if node x and y // are connected or not if (type == 1) { // If roots of x and y is same then yes // is the answer if (areSame(arr, x, y) == true) cout << "Yes" << endl; else cout << "No" << endl; } // type 2 query refers union of x and y else if (type == 2) { // If x and y have different roots then // union them if (areSame(arr, x, y) == false) weighted_union(arr, rank, x, y); }} // Driver functionint main(){ // No.of nodes int n = 7; // The following two arrays are used to // implement disjoint set data structure. // arr[] holds the parent nodes while rank // array holds the rank of subset int arr[n], rank[n]; // initializing both array and rank for (int i=0; i<n; i++) { arr[i] = i; rank[i] = 1; } // number of queries int q = 11; query(1, 0, 1, arr, rank); query(2, 0, 1, arr, rank); query(2, 1, 2, arr, rank); query(1, 0, 2, arr, rank); query(2, 0, 2, arr, rank); query(2, 2, 3, arr, rank); query(2, 3, 4, arr, rank); query(1, 0, 5, arr, rank); query(2, 4, 5, arr, rank); query(2, 5, 6, arr, rank); query(1, 2, 6, arr, rank); return 0;} |
Java
// Java implementation of // incremental connectivityimport java.util.*; class GFG{ // Finding the root of node istatic int root(int arr[], int i){ while (arr[i] != i) { arr[i] = arr[arr[i]]; i = arr[i]; } return i;} // union of two nodes a and bstatic void weighted_union(int arr[], int rank[], int a, int b){ int root_a = root (arr, a); int root_b = root (arr, b); // union based on rank if (rank[root_a] < rank[root_b]) { arr[root_a] = arr[root_b]; rank[root_b] += rank[root_a]; } else { arr[root_b] = arr[root_a]; rank[root_a] += rank[root_b]; }} // Returns true if two nodes have same rootstatic boolean areSame(int arr[], int a, int b){ return (root(arr, a) == root(arr, b));} // Performing an operation// according to query typestatic void query(int type, int x, int y, int arr[], int rank[]){ // type 1 query means checking if // node x and y are connected or not if (type == 1) { // If roots of x and y is same then yes // is the answer if (areSame(arr, x, y) == true) System.out.println("Yes"); else System.out.println("No"); } // type 2 query refers union of x and y else if (type == 2) { // If x and y have different roots then // union them if (areSame(arr, x, y) == false) weighted_union(arr, rank, x, y); }} // Driver Codepublic static void main(String[] args){ // No.of nodes int n = 7; // The following two arrays are used to // implement disjoint set data structure. // arr[] holds the parent nodes while rank // array holds the rank of subset int []arr = new int[n]; int []rank = new int[n]; // initializing both array and rank for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = i; rank[i] = 1; } // number of queries int q = 11; query(1, 0, 1, arr, rank); query(2, 0, 1, arr, rank); query(2, 1, 2, arr, rank); query(1, 0, 2, arr, rank); query(2, 0, 2, arr, rank); query(2, 2, 3, arr, rank); query(2, 3, 4, arr, rank); query(1, 0, 5, arr, rank); query(2, 4, 5, arr, rank); query(2, 5, 6, arr, rank); query(1, 2, 6, arr, rank);}} // This code is contributed by Rajput-Ji |
Python3
# Python3 implementation of# incremental connectivity # Finding the root of node i def root(arr, i): while (arr[i] != i): arr[i] = arr[arr[i]] i = arr[i] return i # union of two nodes a and b def weighted_union(arr, rank, a, b): root_a = root (arr, a) root_b = root (arr, b) # union based on rank if (rank[root_a] < rank[root_b]): arr[root_a] = arr[root_b] rank[root_b] += rank[root_a] else: arr[root_b] = arr[root_a] rank[root_a] += rank[root_b] # Returns true if two nodes have# same root def areSame(arr, a, b): return (root(arr, a) == root(arr, b)) # Performing an operation according# to query type def query(type, x, y, arr, rank): # type 1 query means checking if # node x and y are connected or not if (type == 1): # If roots of x and y is same # then yes is the answer if (areSame(arr, x, y) == True): print("Yes") else: print("No") # type 2 query refers union of # x and y elif (type == 2): # If x and y have different # roots then union them if (areSame(arr, x, y) == False): weighted_union(arr, rank, x, y) # Driver Codeif __name__ == '__main__': # No.of nodes n = 7 # The following two arrays are used to # implement disjoset data structure. # arr[] holds the parent nodes while rank # array holds the rank of subset arr = [None] * n rank = [None] * n # initializing both array # and rank for i in range(n): arr[i] = i rank[i] = 1 # number of queries q = 11 query(1, 0, 1, arr, rank) query(2, 0, 1, arr, rank) query(2, 1, 2, arr, rank) query(1, 0, 2, arr, rank) query(2, 0, 2, arr, rank) query(2, 2, 3, arr, rank) query(2, 3, 4, arr, rank) query(1, 0, 5, arr, rank) query(2, 4, 5, arr, rank) query(2, 5, 6, arr, rank) query(1, 2, 6, arr, rank) # This code is contributed by PranchalK |
C#
// C# implementation of // incremental connectivityusing System; class GFG{ // Finding the root of node istatic int root(int []arr, int i){ while (arr[i] != i) { arr[i] = arr[arr[i]]; i = arr[i]; } return i;} // union of two nodes a and bstatic void weighted_union(int []arr, int []rank, int a, int b){ int root_a = root (arr, a); int root_b = root (arr, b); // union based on rank if (rank[root_a] < rank[root_b]) { arr[root_a] = arr[root_b]; rank[root_b] += rank[root_a]; } else { arr[root_b] = arr[root_a]; rank[root_a] += rank[root_b]; }} // Returns true if two nodes have same rootstatic Boolean areSame(int []arr, int a, int b){ return (root(arr, a) == root(arr, b));} // Performing an operation// according to query typestatic void query(int type, int x, int y, int []arr, int []rank){ // type 1 query means checking if // node x and y are connected or not if (type == 1) { // If roots of x and y is same then yes // is the answer if (areSame(arr, x, y) == true) Console.WriteLine("Yes"); else Console.WriteLine("No"); } // type 2 query refers union of x and y else if (type == 2) { // If x and y have different roots then // union them if (areSame(arr, x, y) == false) weighted_union(arr, rank, x, y); }} // Driver Codepublic static void Main(String[] args){ // No.of nodes int n = 7; // The following two arrays are used to // implement disjoint set data structure. // arr[] holds the parent nodes while rank // array holds the rank of subset int []arr = new int[n]; int []rank = new int[n]; // initializing both array and rank for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = i; rank[i] = 1; } // number of queries query(1, 0, 1, arr, rank); query(2, 0, 1, arr, rank); query(2, 1, 2, arr, rank); query(1, 0, 2, arr, rank); query(2, 0, 2, arr, rank); query(2, 2, 3, arr, rank); query(2, 3, 4, arr, rank); query(1, 0, 5, arr, rank); query(2, 4, 5, arr, rank); query(2, 5, 6, arr, rank); query(1, 2, 6, arr, rank);}} // This code is contributed by PrinciRaj1992 |
Output:
No Yes No Yes
Time Complexity:
The amortized time complexity is O(alpha(n)) per operation where alpha is inverse ackermann function which is nearly constant.
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_connectivity
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