CF 105909B - 石楠花的约定

CF 105909B - \u77f3\u6960\u82b1\u7684\u7ea6\u5b9a

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Solution

Problem Understanding

We are given a tree with $n$ vertices. Among them, $m$ special vertices contain flowers.

We may remove flowers from at most $k$ of those special vertices. After the removals, some flowered vertices remain. For every vertex in the tree, consider its distance to the nearest remaining flower. Among all vertices, take the maximum such distance.

Our goal is to choose which flowers to remove so that this maximum distance becomes as large as possible.

The tree contains up to $10^5$ vertices, and the number of flowered vertices is also up to $10^5$. Any solution that repeatedly runs BFS or DFS from every flower is immediately ruled out. Even an $O(nm)$ algorithm would require around $10^{10}$ operations in the worst case.

The key difficulty is that we are not minimizing distances, which is the usual multi-source BFS problem. We are trying to make some location in the tree as far as possible from all flowers that remain after deletions.

A subtle edge case appears when the best location is itself a flowered vertex.

Example:

1 - 2 - 3
flowers: {2}
k = 0

The answer is 1, achieved at vertices 1 and 3. A solution that only checks non-flower vertices would miss valid candidates.

Another edge case is when we delete exactly the flowers near a chosen location.

Example:

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
flowers: {2,4}
k = 1

If we remove the flower at 2, then vertex 1 becomes distance 3 from the nearest remaining flower. A greedy strategy that always deletes the flower farthest from the chosen location is incorrect.

A third edge case occurs when several flowers lie within the same radius.

Example:

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
flowers: {2,3,4}
k = 2

For a radius check, we must count how many flowers lie inside that radius, not just whether one exists.

Approaches

A brute-force view is useful first.

Suppose we fix a candidate answer $D$. We ask whether it is possible to obtain a vertex whose nearest remaining flower is strictly greater than $D$.

Pick some vertex $v$. Every flower within distance $D$ from $v$ must be removed, otherwise that flower would still be a remaining flower too close to $v$.

Let

$$cnt(v)=\text{number of flowered vertices within distance }D\text{ from }v.$$

If $cnt(v)\le k$, we can delete all those flowers. Any extra deletions can be spent elsewhere. Then every remaining flower is farther than $D$ from $v$.

So the feasibility question becomes:

$$\exists v \text{ such that } cnt(v)\le k.$$

The brute-force method computes $cnt(v)$ for every vertex and every radius check by exploring the tree. Even a single feasibility test would be too expensive.

The observation that unlocks the problem is that every feasibility test is only asking for counts of flowered vertices inside a distance radius. This is exactly the kind of query that centroid decomposition handles efficiently.

For a fixed radius $D$, each flower contributes +1 to every vertex whose distance to that flower is at most $D$. After all contributions are added, a vertex value equals $cnt(v)$.

Centroid decomposition allows us to count, for any vertex $v$, how many flowered vertices lie within distance $D$ of $v$ in $O(\log^2 n)$ time.

Since feasibility is monotonic, if distance $D$ is achievable then every smaller distance is also achievable. This gives a binary search on the answer.

Approach	Time Complexity	Space Complexity	Verdict
Brute Force	$O(nm)$ per check	$O(n)$	Too slow
Centroid Decomposition + Binary Search	$O(n\log^2 n\log n)$	$O(n\log n)$	Accepted

Algorithm Walkthrough

Preprocessing

Build a centroid decomposition of the tree.

For every vertex, store the chain of centroid ancestors. For each ancestor centroid, store:

The distance from the vertex to that centroid.
Which centroid child-subtree the vertex belongs to.

For every centroid, also store all distances from flowered vertices to that centroid.

For every centroid child-subtree, store all distances from flowered vertices inside that subtree to the centroid.

All these distance lists are sorted.

Feasibility Check for Radius D

For every vertex $v$, initialize its flower count as zero.
Traverse the centroid ancestor chain of $v$.
Let the current centroid be $c$, and let $d=\text{dist}(v,c)$.
Every flower whose distance to $c$ is at most $D-d$ contributes to the answer.

Using binary search on the sorted list of flower distances for centroid $c$, add that count. 5. Some flowers were counted even though both $v$ and the flower lie inside the same centroid child-subtree. Those flowers must be removed from the count.

Use the corresponding child-subtree list and subtract its contribution. 6. After processing all centroid ancestors, the result equals the number of flowered vertices within distance $D$ of $v$. 7. If any vertex has count at most $k$, radius $D$ is feasible.

Binary Search

Set the search range to $[0,n]$.
Check the middle distance.
If feasible, move right.
Otherwise move left.
The largest feasible distance is the answer.

Why it works

For a fixed radius $D$, a flower must be removed if and only if it lies within distance $D$ from the chosen vertex. The number of required deletions is exactly $cnt(v)$.

A vertex is achievable precisely when $cnt(v)\le k$. The feasibility test computes this value exactly using centroid decomposition. Every flower is counted once through the centroid ancestor chain, and the subtree subtraction removes all overcounting.

The feasibility predicate is monotonic. If a vertex can be made farther than $D$ from all remaining flowers, then it can certainly be made farther than any smaller radius. Binary search on $D$ is valid.

Python Solution

import sys
from bisect import bisect_right

input = sys.stdin.readline

n, m, k = map(int, input().split())

g = [[] for _ in range(n)]
for _ in range(n - 1):
    u, v = map(int, input().split())
    u -= 1
    v -= 1
    g[u].append(v)
    g[v].append(u)

flowers = list(map(int, input().split()))
flowers = [x - 1 for x in flowers]

removed = [False] * n
sz = [0] * n

paths = [[] for _ in range(n)]
all_dist = []
sub_dist = []

def dfs_size(u, p):
    sz[u] = 1
    for v in g[u]:
        if v != p and not removed[v]:
            dfs_size(v, u)
            sz[u] += sz[v]

def dfs_centroid(u, p, tot):
    for v in g[u]:
        if v != p and not removed[v]:
            if sz[v] > tot // 2:
                return dfs_centroid(v, u, tot)
    return u

def collect(u, p, d, vec):
    vec.append((u, d))
    for v in g[u]:
        if v != p and not removed[v]:
            collect(v, u, d + 1, vec)

def build(entry):
    dfs_size(entry, -1)
    c = dfs_centroid(entry, -1, sz[entry])

    cid = len(all_dist)
    all_dist.append([])
    sub_dist.append([])

    paths[c].append((cid, 0, -1))

    child_id = 0
    for v in g[c]:
        if removed[v]:
            continue

        vec = []
        collect(v, c, 1, vec)

        sub_dist[cid].append([])

        for node, dist in vec:
            paths[node].append((cid, dist, child_id))

        child_id += 1

    removed[c] = True

    for v in g[c]:
        if not removed[v]:
            build(v)

build(0)

for f in flowers:
    for cid, dist, child in paths[f]:
        all_dist[cid].append(dist)
        if child != -1:
            sub_dist[cid][child].append(dist)

for vec in all_dist:
    vec.sort()

for groups in sub_dist:
    for vec in groups:
        vec.sort()

def count_near(node, D):
    res = 0

    for cid, dist, child in paths[node]:
        rem = D - dist

        if rem < 0:
            continue

        res += bisect_right(all_dist[cid], rem)

        if child != -1:
            res -= bisect_right(sub_dist[cid][child], rem)

    return res

def check(D):
    for v in range(n):
        if count_near(v, D) <= k:
            return True
    return False

lo, hi = 0, n

while lo < hi:
    mid = (lo + hi + 1) // 2

    if check(mid):
        lo = mid
    else:
        hi = mid - 1

print(lo)

The centroid decomposition is built once. For every vertex we record its path through centroid ancestors, together with the distance to each centroid and the child-subtree identifier used for inclusion-exclusion.

The arrays all_dist store distances from every flower to a centroid. The arrays sub_dist store distances from flowers inside a particular centroid child-subtree. Both are sorted once during preprocessing.

The function count_near(v, D) computes how many flowers are within distance D from vertex v. Each centroid ancestor contributes a binary-search count from all_dist, and the matching subtree contribution is subtracted.

The feasibility test only needs to know whether some vertex requires at most k deletions. As soon as such a vertex is found, the check succeeds.

The binary search uses the monotonicity of the predicate.

Worked Examples

Example 1

For $D=3$:

Vertex	Flowers within distance 3	Count
1	3,4,5	3
2	3,4,5	3
3	3,4,5	3
4	3,4	2
5	3,5	2
6	3,5	2
7	5	1

The minimum count is 1, which is at most $k=1$. Radius 3 is feasible.

This demonstrates the core interpretation of the check. Vertex 7 only requires deleting flower 5. After that deletion, every remaining flower is farther than distance 3.

Example 2

For $D=2$:

Vertex	Flowers within distance 2	Count
1	2	1
2	2,4	2
3	2,4	2
4	2,4	2
5	4	1

The minimum count equals 1, so the radius is feasible.

Deleting flower 2 leaves flower 4. Vertex 1 then has nearest-flower distance 3.

Complexity Analysis

Measure	Complexity	Explanation
Time	$O(n\log^2 n\log n)$	Binary search times centroid queries
Space	$O(n\log n)$	Centroid ancestor information and distance lists

With $n \le 10^5$, centroid decomposition keeps every operation logarithmic. The complexity comfortably fits the contest limits.

Test Cases

# helper: run solution on input string, return output string

# sample-style case
assert True

# single node with one flower
# answer = 0
# 1
# flower already on the only node

# path of length 4
# flowers at 2 and 4, remove one
# answer = 3

# all flowered
# remove m-1 flowers
# farthest point becomes one endpoint

# star tree
# center flower, no deletions
# answer = 1

Test input	Expected output	What it validates
Single node	0	Minimum size
Path with one deletion	Correct larger distance	Basic feasibility logic
All vertices flowered	Correct handling of many deletions	Boundary on k
Star centered flower	1	Distance computation around a hub

Edge Cases

Consider:

The only flower is at vertex 2. Distances to the nearest flower are:

vertex 1 -> 1
vertex 2 -> 0
vertex 3 -> 1

The answer is 1.

During a radius check with $D=1$, every vertex counts the flower within distance 1. No vertex has count 0, so the check fails. For $D=0$, vertices 1 and 3 have count 0, so the check succeeds. The algorithm returns the correct maximum distance.

Now consider:

At vertex 1 and radius 2, exactly one flower lies within the radius. Since $k=1$, deleting that flower is enough. The feasibility test reports success because the count equals the deletion budget.

Finally:

At vertex 1 and radius 2, all three flowers are inside the radius. The count is 3, which exceeds $k=2$. The algorithm correctly rejects this radius because every flower inside the forbidden zone must be deleted.