Maximum product of splitted binary tree [DFS]

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

Given a binary tree root. Split the binary tree into two subtrees by removing 1 edge such that the product of the sums of the subtrees are maximized.

Since the answer may be too large, return it modulo 10^9 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: root = {TreeNode} [1,2,3,4,5,6]

Output: 110

Explanation:

  • Remove the red edge and get 2 binary trees with sum 11 and 10. Their product is 110 (11*10)

Example 2:

Input: root = {TreeNode} [1,null,2,3,4,null,null,5,6]

Output: 90

Explanation:

  • Remove the red edge and get 2 binary trees with sum 15 and 6.Their product is 90 (15*6)

Example 3:

Input: root = {TreeNode} [2,3,9,10,7,8,6,5,4,11,1]

Output: 1025

Example 4:

Input: root = {TreeNode} [1,1]

Output: 1

Constraints:

  • Each tree has at most 50000 nodes and at least 2 nodes.

  • Each node’s value is between [1, 10000].

Hints:

  1. If we know the sum of a subtree, the answer is max( (total_sum - subtree_sum) * subtree_sum) in each node.

[6]:
class TreeNode(object):
    def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
        self.val = val
        self.left = left
        self.right = right