Critical Connections in a Network

Omar Faroque
Algorithm and DataStructure
4 min readSep 17, 2019

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There are n servers numbered from 0 to n-1 connected by undirected server-to-server connections forming a network where connections[i] = [a, b] represents a connection between servers a and b. Any server can reach any other server directly or indirectly through the network.

A critical connection is a connection that, if removed, will make some server unable to reach some other server.

Return all critical connections in the network in any order.

Example 1:

Input: n = 4, connections = [[0,1],[1,2],[2,0],[1,3]]
Output: [[1,3]]
Explanation: [[3,1]] is also accepted.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 10^5
  • n-1 <= connections.length <= 10^5
  • connections[i][0] != connections[i][1]
  • There are no repeated connections.

Solution:

I will start to explain this problem by taking the example above.

If we remove the connection [0,1], the graph will look like below. We can traverse all the node in the graph.

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