Longest Path With Different Adjacent Characters
You are given a tree (i.e. a connected, undirected graph that has no cycles) rooted at node 0 consisting of n nodes numbered from 0 to n - 1. The tree is represented by a 0-indexed array parent of size n, where parent[i] is the parent of node i. Since node 0 is the root, parent[0] == -1.
You are also given a string s of length n, where s[i] is the character assigned to node i.
Return the length of the longest path in the tree such that no pair of adjacent nodes on the path have the same character assigned to them.
Example 1
Input
parent = [-1,0,0,1,1,2], s = "abacbe"Output
3The longest valid path is 0 -> 1 -> 3, which has length 3, and no longer path satisfies the condition.
Example 2
Input
parent = [-1,0,0,0], s = "aabc"Output
3The longest valid path is 2 -> 0 -> 3, which has length 3.
Constraints
- n == parent.length == s.length
- 1 <= n <= 10^5
- 0 <= parent[i] <= n - 1 for all i >= 1
- parent[0] == -1
- parent represents a valid tree.
- s consists of only lowercase English letters.
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