Flip equivalent binary trees [DFS]

Time: O(N); Space: O(H); medium

For a binary tree T, we can define a flip operation as follows: choose any node, and swap the left and right child subtrees.

A binary tree X is flip equivalent to a binary tree Y if and only if we can make X equal to Y after some number of flip operations.

Write a function that determines whether two binary trees are flip equivalent. The trees are given by root nodes root1 and root2.

Example 1:

Input: root1 = {TreeNode} [1,2,3,4,5,6,null,null,null,7,8], root2 = {TreeNode} [1,3,2,null,6,4,5,null,null,null,null,8,7]

Output: True

Explanation:

  • We flipped at nodes with values 1, 3, and 5.

Flipped Trees Diagram

Notes:

  • Each tree will have at most 100 nodes.

  • Each value in each tree will be a unique integer in the range [0, 99].

[1]:
class TreeNode(object):
    def __init__(self, x):
        self.val = x
        self.left = None
        self.right = None