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In computer science, tree traversal (also known as tree search and walking the tree) is a form of graph traversal and refers to the process of visiting (e.g. retrieving, updating, or deleting) each node in a tree data structure, exactly once. Such traversals are classified by the order in which the nodes are visited.
The cost of a search is modeled by assuming that the search tree algorithm has a single pointer into a binary search tree, which at the start of each search points to the root of the tree. The algorithm may then perform any sequence of the following operations: Move the pointer to its left child. Move the pointer to its right child.
The tree rotation renders the inorder traversal of the binary tree invariant. This implies the order of the elements is not affected when a rotation is performed in any part of the tree. Here are the inorder traversals of the trees shown above: Left tree: ((A, P, B), Q, C) Right tree: (A, P, (B, Q, C))
Čulík & Wood (1982) define the "right spine" of a binary tree to be the path obtained by starting from the root and following right child links until reaching a node that has no right child. If a tree has the property that not all nodes belong to the right spine, there always exists a right rotation that increases the length of the right spine.
Fig. 1: A binary search tree of size 9 and depth 3, with 8 at the root. In computer science, a binary search tree (BST), also called an ordered or sorted binary tree, is a rooted binary tree data structure with the key of each internal node being greater than all the keys in the respective node's left subtree and less than the ones in its right subtree.
It includes left, right, left-right and right-left rotations. Fig. 1: AVL tree with balance factors (green) In computer science, an AVL tree (named after inventors Adelson-Velsky and Landis) is a self-balancing binary search tree. In an AVL tree, the heights of the two child subtrees of any node differ by at most one; if at any time they differ ...
For example, the ordered tree on the left and the binary tree on the right correspond: An example of converting an n-ary tree to a binary tree. In the pictured binary tree, the black, left, edges represent first child, while the blue, right, edges represent next sibling. This representation is called a left-child right-sibling binary tree.
Abstractly, a dichotomic search can be viewed as following edges of an implicit binary tree structure until it reaches a leaf (a goal or final state). This creates a theoretical tradeoff between the number of possible states and the running time: given k comparisons, the algorithm can only reach O(2 k ) possible states and/or possible goals.