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A rabbit only has a problem when it points at a flower. If it points at another rabbit, it is blocked immediately. If it points outside the array, it is blocked too.
So focus on every adjacent 0-1 pair. The rabbit in the 0 pot is allowed to point into that 1 only if there is also a 0 on the other side of that same flower.
For every pattern 010, the two rabbits around the flower must either both point into the flower or both point away from it. In direction variables, that means the left rabbit and right rabbit must have opposite directions.
If a rabbit is next to a flower that has no rabbit on the opposite side, then pointing into that flower is simply forbidden. That gives a forced direction for that rabbit.
Now the problem is just assigning L/R values to zero positions with constraints: some positions are forced, and every 010 adds an inequality between the two zero positions. These constraints form simple paths, so a BFS/DFS coloring check is enough.
The trick is to stop thinking about rabbits as cute little chaos machines and start thinking about what can actually make one move.
A rabbit at an empty pot chooses left or right. It does not jump if:
So the only dangerous move is:
a rabbit points into a flower, and nobody points into that flower from the other side.
Everything else is automatically safe.
Turn directions into variables
Only positions with s[i] = 0 contain rabbits. For each such position, define a variable:
0 means the rabbit looks left,1 means the rabbit looks right.Now inspect what constraints exist.
Suppose we have this pattern:
0 1 0There are two rabbits around one flower.
If the left rabbit points right into the flower, then the right rabbit must point left into the same flower. Otherwise the left rabbit jumps.
If the right rabbit points left into the flower, then the left rabbit must point right too. Otherwise the right rabbit jumps.
So around every 010, the valid direction pairs are:
L R both point away from the flower
R L both point into the flowerThe invalid pairs are:
L L only right rabbit attacks the flower
R R only left rabbit attacks the flowerThat means the two direction variables must be different.
So every substring 010 gives an inequality constraint:
where both endpoints are zero positions.
Forced directions
Now consider a rabbit next to a flower with no rabbit on the other side:
0 1 1The left rabbit cannot point right, because it would target the flower and there is no rabbit on the opposite side to block it. Therefore it is forced to point left.
Similarly:
1 1 0The right rabbit cannot point left, so it is forced to point right.
This also covers borders. In 01 at the end, if the flower has no zero on its other side, the zero cannot point into it. Pointing outward or toward another rabbit is fine.
For every zero position i:
i - 1 is a flower and i - 2 is not a zero position, then x_i cannot be left, so force x_i = right.i + 1 is a flower and i + 2 is not a zero position, then x_i cannot be right, so force x_i = left.If one rabbit is forced both left and right, answer is immediately NO.
Now it is just graph coloring
Make a graph whose vertices are the zero positions.
For every pattern 010, connect the two zero positions with an edge meaning:
Some vertices may already have a forced color.
Because edges only connect positions distance apart, the graph is basically a bunch of chains. No cursed 2-SAT monster needed. We can still write it as a normal BFS/DFS coloring check:
0.NO.NO.If all components can be colored, answer YES.
Why this is sufficient
We handled every possible way a rabbit might move:
010 inequality guarantees either both rabbits point into the flower or neither does.So no rabbit can make an unblocked jump. That is exactly what the problem asks.
Complexity is linear: per test case, and overall. Memory is also .
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
using ll = long long;
void setIO() {
ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
cin.tie(nullptr);
}
int main() {
setIO();
int T;
cin >> T;
while (T--) {
int n;
string s;
cin >> n >> s;
vector<int> forced(n, -1), color(n, -1);
vector<vector<int>> adj(n);
bool ok = true;
auto force_value = [&](int i, int v) {
if (forced[i] != -1 && forced[i] != v) ok = false;
forced[i] = v;
};
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
if (s[i] != '0') continue;
if (i > 0 && s[i - 1] == '1' && !(i >= 2 && s[i - 2] == '0')) {
force_value(i, 1); // cannot look left, so look right
}
if (i + 1 < n && s[i + 1] == '1' && !(i + 2 < n && s[i + 2] == '0')) {
force_value(i, 0); // cannot look right, so look left
}
}
for (int i = 0; i + 2 < n; i++) {
if (s[i] == '0' && s[i + 1] == '1' && s[i + 2] == '0') {
adj[i].push_back(i + 2);
adj[i + 2].push_back(i);
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < n && ok; i++) {
if (s[i] != '0' || color[i] != -1) continue;
color[i] = (forced[i] == -1 ? 0 : forced[i]);
queue<int> q;
q.push(i);
while (!q.empty() && ok) {
int u = q.front();
q.pop();
if (forced[u] != -1 && forced[u] != color[u]) {
ok = false;
break;
}
for (int v : adj[u]) {
int need = color[u] ^ 1;
if (color[v] == -1) {
color[v] = need;
q.push(v);
} else if (color[v] != need) {
ok = false;
break;
}
}
}
}
cout << (ok ? "YES" : "NO") << '\n';
}
}#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
using ll = long long;
void setIO() {
ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
cin.tie(nullptr);
}
int main() {
setIO();
int T;
cin >> T;
while (T--) {
int n;
string s;
cin >> n >> s;
vector<int> forced(n, -1), color(n, -1);
vector<vector<int>> adj(n);
bool ok = true;
auto force_value = [&](int i, int v) {
if (forced[i] != -1 && forced[i] != v) ok = false;
forced[i] = v;
};
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
if (s[i] != '0') continue;
if (i > 0 && s[i - 1] == '1' && !(i >= 2 && s[i - 2] == '0')) {
force_value(i, 1); // cannot look left, so look right
}
if (i + 1 < n && s[i + 1] == '1' && !(i + 2 < n && s[i + 2] == '0')) {
force_value(i, 0); // cannot look right, so look left
}
}
for (int i = 0; i + 2 < n; i++) {
if (s[i] == '0' && s[i + 1] == '1' && s[i + 2] == '0') {
adj[i].push_back(i + 2);
adj[i + 2].push_back(i);
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < n && ok; i++) {
if (s[i] != '0' || color[i] != -1) continue;
color[i] = (forced[i] == -1 ? 0 : forced[i]);
queue<int> q;
q.push(i);
while (!q.empty() && ok) {
int u = q.front();
q.pop();
if (forced[u] != -1 && forced[u] != color[u]) {
ok = false;
break;
}
for (int v : adj[u]) {
int need = color[u] ^ 1;
if (color[v] == -1) {
color[v] = need;
q.push(v);
} else if (color[v] != need) {
ok = false;
break;
}
}
}
}
cout << (ok ? "YES" : "NO") << '\n';
}
}