- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree, leetcode-98, Recursion, O(n), O(1), LintCode, O(h)
Problem
Given the root
of a binary tree, determine if it is a valid binary search tree (BST).
A valid BST is defined as follows:
- The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys less than the node's key.
- The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys greater than the node's key.
- Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.
Example 1:
Input: root = [2,1,3] Output: true
Example 2:
Input: root = [5,1,4,null,null,3,6] Output: false Explanation: The root node's value is 5 but its right child's value is 4.
Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[1, 104]
. -231 <= Node.val <= 231 - 1