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Find MEX of every subtree in given Tree

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

Given a Generic Tree consisting of N nodes numbered from 0 to N - 1 which is rooted at node 0 and an array val[] such that the value at each node is represented by val[i],  the task for each node is to find the value of MEX of its subtree.

The MEX value of node V is defined as the smallest missing positive number in a tree rooted at node V.

Examples:

Input: N = 6, edges = {{0, 1}, {1, 2}, {0, 3}, {3, 4}, {3, 5}}, val[] = {4, 3, 5, 1, 0, 2}
Output: [6, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0]
Explanation:
             0(4)
           /    \
      1(3)    3(1)
     /         /    \
2(5)     4(0)   5(2)  

In the subtrees of:
Node 0: All the values in range [0, 5] are present, hence the smallest non-negative value not present is 6.
Node 1: The smallest non-negative value not present in subtree of node 1 is 0.
Node 2: The smallest non-negative value not present in subtree of node 2 absent is 0.
Node 3: All the values in range [0, 2] are present, hence the smallest non-negative value not present in subtree of node 3 is 3.
Node 4: The smallest non-negative value not present in subtree of node 4 is 1.
Node 5: The smallest non-negative value not present in subtree of node 5 is 0.

Approach: The given problem can be solved using DFS Traversal on the given Tree and performing the Binary Search to find the missing minimum positive integers in each node subtree. Follow the steps below to solve the problem:

Below is the implementation of the above approach:


Output
6 0 0 3 1 0

Time Complexity: O(N*(N + log N))
Auxiliary Space: O(N)

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