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2076. Process Restricted Friend Requests

Description

You are given an integer n indicating the number of people in a network. Each person is labeled from 0 to n - 1.

You are also given a 0-indexed 2D integer array restrictions, where restrictions[i] = [xi, yi] means that person xi and person yi cannot become friends, either directly or indirectly through other people.

Initially, no one is friends with each other. You are given a list of friend requests as a 0-indexed 2D integer array requests, where requests[j] = [uj, vj] is a friend request between person uj and person vj.

A friend request is successful if uj and vj can be friends. Each friend request is processed in the given order (i.e., requests[j] occurs before requests[j + 1]), and upon a successful request, uj and vj become direct friends for all future friend requests.

Return a boolean array result, where each result[j] is true if the jth friend request is successful or false if it is not.

Note: If uj and vj are already direct friends, the request is still successful.

 

Example 1:

Input: n = 3, restrictions = [[0,1]], requests = [[0,2],[2,1]]
Output: [true,false]
Explanation:
Request 0: Person 0 and person 2 can be friends, so they become direct friends. 
Request 1: Person 2 and person 1 cannot be friends since person 0 and person 1 would be indirect friends (1--2--0).

Example 2:

Input: n = 3, restrictions = [[0,1]], requests = [[1,2],[0,2]]
Output: [true,false]
Explanation:
Request 0: Person 1 and person 2 can be friends, so they become direct friends.
Request 1: Person 0 and person 2 cannot be friends since person 0 and person 1 would be indirect friends (0--2--1).

Example 3:

Input: n = 5, restrictions = [[0,1],[1,2],[2,3]], requests = [[0,4],[1,2],[3,1],[3,4]]
Output: [true,false,true,false]
Explanation:
Request 0: Person 0 and person 4 can be friends, so they become direct friends.
Request 1: Person 1 and person 2 cannot be friends since they are directly restricted.
Request 2: Person 3 and person 1 can be friends, so they become direct friends.
Request 3: Person 3 and person 4 cannot be friends since person 0 and person 1 would be indirect friends (0--4--3--1).

 

Constraints:

  • 2 <= n <= 1000
  • 0 <= restrictions.length <= 1000
  • restrictions[i].length == 2
  • 0 <= xi, yi <= n - 1
  • xi != yi
  • 1 <= requests.length <= 1000
  • requests[j].length == 2
  • 0 <= uj, vj <= n - 1
  • uj != vj

Solutions

Solution 1: Union-Find

We can use a union-find set to maintain the friend relationships, and then for each request, we determine whether it meets the restriction conditions.

For the two people $(u, v)$ in the current request, if they are already friends, then the request can be directly accepted; otherwise, we traverse the restriction conditions. If there exists a restriction condition $(x, y)$ such that $u$ and $x$ are friends and $v$ and $y$ are friends, or $u$ and $y$ are friends and $v$ and $x$ are friends, then the request cannot be accepted.

The time complexity is $O(q \times m \times \log(n))$, and the space complexity is $O(n)$. Where $q$ and $m$ are the number of requests and the number of restriction conditions respectively.

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class Solution:
    def friendRequests(
        self, n: int, restrictions: List[List[int]], requests: List[List[int]]
    ) -> List[bool]:
        def find(x: int) -> int:
            if p[x] != x:
                p[x] = find(p[x])
            return p[x]

        p = list(range(n))
        ans = []
        for u, v in requests:
            pu, pv = find(u), find(v)
            if pu == pv:
                ans.append(True)
            else:
                ok = True
                for x, y in restrictions:
                    px, py = find(x), find(y)
                    if (pu == px and pv == py) or (pu == py and pv == px):
                        ok = False
                        break
                ans.append(ok)
                if ok:
                    p[pu] = pv
        return ans
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class Solution {
    private int[] p;

    public boolean[] friendRequests(int n, int[][] restrictions, int[][] requests) {
        p = new int[n];
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
            p[i] = i;
        }
        int m = requests.length;
        boolean[] ans = new boolean[m];
        for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
            int u = requests[i][0], v = requests[i][1];
            int pu = find(u), pv = find(v);
            if (pu == pv) {
                ans[i] = true;
            } else {
                boolean ok = true;
                for (var r : restrictions) {
                    int px = find(r[0]), py = find(r[1]);
                    if ((pu == px && pv == py) || (pu == py && pv == px)) {
                        ok = false;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if (ok) {
                    ans[i] = true;
                    p[pu] = pv;
                }
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }

    private int find(int x) {
        if (p[x] != x) {
            p