310. Minimum Height Trees

Minimum Height Trees

For a undirected graph with tree characteristics, we can choose any node as the root. The result graph is then a rooted tree. Among all possible rooted trees, those with minimum height are called minimum height trees (MHTs).
Given such a graph, write a function to find all the MHTs and return a list of their root labels.



Format
The graph contains n nodes which are labeled from 0 to n - 1.
You will be given the number n and a list of undirected edges (each edge is a pair of labels).

You can assume that no duplicate edges will appear in edges. Since all edges are undirected, [0, 1] is the same as [1, 0] and thus will not appear together in edges.

Example 1:


Given n = 4, edges = [[1, 0], [1, 2], [1, 3]]



    0
    |
    1
   / \
  2   3


return  [1]



Example 2:


Given n = 6, edges = [[0, 3], [1, 3], [2, 3], [4, 3], [5, 4]]


 0  1  2
  \ | /
    3
    |
    4
    |
    5


return  [3, 4]



Note:


(1) According to the definition
of tree on Wikipedia: “a tree is an undirected graph in which any two vertices are connected by
exactly one path. In other words, any connected graph without simple cycles is a tree.”


(2) The height of a rooted tree is the number of edges on the longest downward path between the root and a
leaf.

Credits:Special thanks to @dietpepsi for adding this problem and creating all test cases.

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