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Problem: Isomorphic Strings

Explore how to solve the isomorphic strings problem by using two hash maps to create and verify a bijective character mapping between two strings. Understand consistent and one-to-one mapping, and implement an efficient Java solution with linear time complexity and constant space.

Statement

Given two strings s and t, determine whether they are isomorphic.

Two strings are considered isomorphic if there exists a one-to-one mapping from every character in s to a character in t such that replacing each character in s according to this mapping produces t. The mapping must preserve character order. Every occurrence of a given character in s must map to the same character in t, and no two distinct characters in s may map to the same character in t. A character is allowed to map to itself.

Return TRUE if s and t are isomorphic, and FALSE otherwise.

Note: The mapping must be bijective, meaning it is both one-to-one (no two characters in s map to the same character in t) and consistent (each character in s always maps to the same character in t).

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s.length 5×104 ...