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Solution: Find Minimum Diameter After Merging Two Trees

Explore how to determine the minimum diameter after connecting two undirected trees by applying breadth-first search twice on each tree to find their diameters. Understand the formula that minimizes the combined tree's diameter by connecting their central nodes. This lesson helps you analyze tree structures, implement BFS for diameter calculation, and efficiently connect trees with minimal diameter increase.

Statement

You are given two undirected trees: one with nn nodes labeled from 00 to n1n - 1, and another with mm nodes labeled from 00 to m1m - 1. Their structures are defined by two 2D2D integer arrays—edges1 of length n1n - 1 for the first tree, and edges2 of length m1m - 1 for the second. Each element edges1[i] = [aᵢ, bᵢ] represents an edge between nodes aaᵢ and bbᵢ in the first tree, and similarly, edges2[i] = [uᵢ, vᵢ] represents an edge in the second tree.

Your task is to connect any node from the first tree to any one node from the second tree using a ...