README.md

Nazart Collections

Repository for specialized C# Data Structures.

List of Data Structures

Disjoint-Set or Union-Find

These data structures are used to track a set of elements partitioned into a number of disjoint subsets. They are useful for finding minimum spanning trees of a graph or testing for cycles.

• DisjointSet<T>
• FastDisjointSet

Usages

Detecting cycles in undirected-graphs. Consider the following graph with a cycle, modeled as a list of edge tuples: (0,1), (0,2), (1,3), (2,3), (1,4)

 0-1-4
 | |
 2-3

A cycle detection algorithm can be developed by using the FastDisjointSet like so:

bool HasCycle(IEnumerable<(int,int)> edges, int nodeCount) {
    var disjointSet = new FastDisjointSet(nodeCount);

    foreach(var (a,b) in edges) {
        if (!disjointSet.Union(a, b)) {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

Building and Testing

To build and test, clone repository to directory and execute the following commands:

\> dotnet build
\> cd Nazart.Collections.Test
\> dotnet test