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---
id: dsu
title: "Disjoint Set Union"
author: Benjamin Qi, Michael Cao
prerequisites:
- dfs
description: "The Disjoint Set Union (DSU) data structure allows you to add edges to an initially empty graph and test whether two vertices of the graph are connected."
frequency: 3
---
import { Problem } from "../models";
export const metadata = {
problems: {
sample: [
new Problem("YS", "Union Find", "unionfind", "Intro|Easy", false, []),
],
general: [
new Problem("Gold", "Closing the Farm", "646", "Easy", false, [], "Simulate process in reverse and maintain the # of connected components. Similar to [CSES Network Breakdown](https://cses.fi/problemset/task/1677)"),
new Problem("Gold", "Mootube", "789", "Normal", false, [], "Answer queries in decreasing order of $k$. Maintain size of each connected component. Same as [CSES Road Construction](https://cses.fi/problemset/task/1676)"),
new Problem("Gold", "Favorite Colors", "1042", "Very Hard", false, ["DSU"], "Small to large merging is mentioned in the editorial, but we were unable to break solutions that just merged naively. Alternatively, just merge linked lists in $O(1)$ time."),
],
}
};
<Problems problems={metadata.problems.sample} />
## Resources
<Resources>
<Resource source="CSA" title="Disjoint Data Sets" url="disjoint_data_sets" starred>both optimizations, diagrams</Resource>
<Resource source="PAPS" title="11.1 - Disjoint Sets" starred>both optimizations, no diagrams</Resource>
<Resource source="CPH" title="15.2 - Union-Find">small to large, diagrams</Resource>
<Resource source="IUSACO" title="10.6 - Disjoint-Set Data Structure">path compression, diagrams</Resource>
<Resource source="TC" title="Disjoint Set Data Structures" url="disjoint-set-data-structures">diagrams</Resource>
<Resource source="CPC" title="3 - Data Structures" url="03_data_structures"></Resource>
</Resources>
Note: You may prefer to use this in place of DFS for computing connected components.
<Optional title="DSU Complexity Proofs">
- [$\log^* n$](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_O(log*n)\_time_complexity\_of_union%E2%80%93find)
- [$\alpha (m,n)$](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/321879.321884)
</Optional>
## Implementations
<LanguageSection>
<CPPSection>
Check PAPS for the explanation. `e[x]` contains the negation of the size of $x$'s component if $x$ is the representative of its component, and the parent of $x$ otherwise.
<resource source="Benq (from KACTL)" url="https://github.com/bqi343/USACO/blob/master/Implementations/content/graphs%20(12)/DSU/DSU%20(7.6).h"> </resource>
```cpp
struct DSU {
vi e; void init(int N) { e = vi(N,-1); }
// get representive component, uses path compression
int get(int x) { return e[x] < 0 ? x : e[x] = get(e[x]); }
bool sameSet(int a, int b) { return get(a) == get(b); }
int size(int x) { return -e[get(x)]; }
bool unite(int x, int y) { // union by size
x = get(x), y = get(y); if (x == y) return 0;
if (e[x] > e[y]) swap(x,y);
e[x] += e[y]; e[y] = x; return 1;
}
};
```
</CPPSection>
<JavaSection>
This implementation assumes that `p` is an array that starts such that `p[i] = i` for every $0 <= i <= n$. It uses path compression only.
```java
//finds the "representative" node in a's component
int find(int a) {
if (p[a] == a)
return a;
else
return p[a] = find(p[a]);
}
//returns whether the merge changed connectivity
boolean merge(int a, int b) {
int A = find(a);
int B = find(b);
if (A == B)
return false;
p[a] = p[b] = p[A] = p[B];
return true;
}
```
</JavaSection>
</LanguageSection>
## Problems
<Problems problems={metadata.problems.general} />