AI Features

Red-Black Tree Insertion

This lesson will cover the insertion operation in Red-Black trees, discussing all the four insertion cases.

Insertion in Red-Black Tree

The following are the steps involved in inserting value into a Red-Black Tree:

  1. Insert currentNode using the standard BST insertion technique that we studied earlier, and make currentNode red.

  2. If currentNode is the root, then change the color of currentNode to black.

  3. If currentNode is not the root, then we will have to perform some operations to make the tree follow the Red-Black property.

Rebalancing the Tree

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