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Red-black trees have been invented by Bayer (1972) and Guibas, Sedgewick (1978). | Red-black trees have been invented by Bayer (1972) and Guibas, Sedgewick (1978). A red-black tree is a type of [[Binary_Search_Trees#Overview|binary search tree]] that self-balances on insertion and deletion, thus maintaining its height to a minimum, which leads to efficient operations. Almost all [[Binary_Search_Trees#Supported_Operations|binary search tree operations]] have a running time bounded by the tree height, and in this case the tree height stays constant at log n, yielding O(log n) operations. | ||
=Red-Black Tree Invariants= | =Red-Black Tree Invariants= | ||
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- https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-graphs-data-structures/lecture/8acpe/red-black-trees
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree
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Overview
Red-black trees have been invented by Bayer (1972) and Guibas, Sedgewick (1978). A red-black tree is a type of binary search tree that self-balances on insertion and deletion, thus maintaining its height to a minimum, which leads to efficient operations. Almost all binary search tree operations have a running time bounded by the tree height, and in this case the tree height stays constant at log n, yielding O(log n) operations.
Red-Black Tree Invariants
- Each node is either red or black.
- The root is always black.
- There are never 2 red nodes in a row (a red node has only black children).
- Every path taken from root to a NULL pointer has the same number of black nodes.
These invariants are in addition to the fact that the red-black tree is a binary search tree, so it has the Binary Search Tree Property.
Red makes a node "invisible" to the invariant 4.
If all these invariants are satisfied at all times, the height of the tree is going to be small.