This implementation assumes that the values in the BST are unique.
What is a Binary Search Tree (BST)?Sure, I can help you with that. Here's an implementation of the algorithm you described in Python:
```
class TreeNode:
def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
self.val = val
self.left = left
self.right = right
def inorder_traversal(root):
if root:
inorder_traversal(root.left)
print(root.val)
inorder_traversal(root.right)
def delete_root(root):
# case 1: empty tree
if not root:
return None
# case 2: root has no children
if not root.left and not root.right:
return None
# case 3: root has only one child
if not root.left:
return root.right
if not root.right:
return root.left
# case 4: root has two children
parent = root
successor = root.right
while successor.left:
parent = successor
successor = successor.left
if parent != root:
parent.left = successor.right
successor.right = root.right
successor.left = root.left
return successor
# example usage
root = TreeNode(5)
root.left = TreeNode(3)
root.right = TreeNode(7)
root.left.left = TreeNode(2)
root.left.right = TreeNode(4)
root.right.left = TreeNode(6)
root.right.right = TreeNode(8)
print("Before deletion:")
inorder_traversal(root)
root = delete_root(root)
print("After deletion:")
inorder_traversal(root)
```
This implementation assumes that the BST is a binary tree where each node has at most two children, and that the BST is implemented using the `TreeNode` class. The `delete_root` function takes a `TreeNode` object as input, representing the root of the BST to be deleted, and returns the new root of the BST after deletion. The `inorder_traversal` function takes a `TreeNode` object as input and performs an in-order traversal of the tree, printing the values of the nodes in ascending order.
The `delete_root` function first checks for the four possible cases of deleting the root node. If the tree is empty, it simply returns `None`. If the root node has no children, it also returns `None`.
If the root node has only one child, it returns that child node as the new root. If the root node has two children, it finds the in-order successor of the root node (i.e., the node with the smallest value in the right subtree) and replaces the root node with the successor node while maintaining the BST property.
Note that this implementation assumes that the values in the BST are unique. If the values are not unique, the `delete_root` function may need to be modified to handle cases where there are multiple nodes with the same value as the root node.
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