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You are roaming in a forest. This forest can be viewed as a graph with n nodes and m undirected edges. You roam the forest by traveling through the undirected edges from one node to another. You want to travel all the nodes at least once and stop when you have visited every node. Given that this is a connected graph, find the smallest lexicographical sequence of nodes that can be visited and return it in an array.The m undirected edges are given in the form of two arrays a and b, wherein there is an undirected edge between a[i] and b[i].Input FormatThe first line contains n, the number of nodes in the forest.The second line contains m, the number of edges in the forest.The next m lines contain the elements of the array a.The next line contains m, the number of edges in the forest.The next m lines contain the elements of the array b.Constraints2 <= n <= 1051 <= m <= 105The graph is a single connected component.If i!=j then (a[i], b[i]) != (a[j], b[j])Output FormatReturn an array denoting the lexicographically smallest sequence in which the nodes can be visited.

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You are roaming in a forest. This forest can be viewed as a graph with n nodes and m undirected edges. You roam the forest by traveling through the undirected edges from one node to another. You want to travel all the nodes at least once and stop when you have visited every node. Given that this is a connected graph, find the smallest lexicographical sequence of nodes that can be visited and return it in an array.The m undirected edges are given in the form of two arrays a and b, wherein there is an undirected edge between a[i] and b[i].Input FormatThe first line contains n, the number of nodes in the forest.The second line contains m, the number of edges in the forest.The next m lines contain the elements of the array a.The next line contains m, the number of edges in the forest.The next m lines contain the elements of the array b.Constraints2 <= n <= 1051 <= m <= 105The graph is a single connected component.If i!=j then (a[i], b[i]) != (a[j], b[j])Output FormatReturn an array denoting the lexicographically smallest sequence in which the nodes can be visited.

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This problem is a graph theory problem and can be solved using priority queue and adjacency list. Here are the steps to solve this problem:

  1. Parse the input: First, we need to parse the input. We have n nodes and m edges. The edges are given in the form of two arrays a and b, where there is an edge between a[i] and b[i].

  2. Create the graph: We need to create an adjacency list to represent the graph. For each edge (a[i], b[i]), we add b[i] to the list of neighbors of a[i] and vice versa.

  3. Initialize the priority queue: We initialize a priority queue to keep track of the nodes to visit. The priority queue is ordered in such a way that the smallest node is always at the top. We start by adding the smallest node to the queue.

  4. Visit the nodes: While the priority queue is not empty, we pop the smallest node from the queue and add it to the sequence. Then, we add all its unvisited neighbors to the queue. To ensure that we don't visit a node more than once, we keep track of the visited nodes.

  5. Return the sequence: Once we have visited all the nodes, we return the sequence of visited nodes.

Here is a Python code snippet that implements these steps:

from heapq import *
def smallest_lexicographical_sequence(n, m, a, b):
    graph = [[] for _ in range(n+1)]
    for i in range(m):
        graph[a[i]].append(b[i])
        graph[b[i]].append(a[i])
    for i in range(n+1):
        graph[i].sort()
    visited = [False]*(n+1)
    sequence = []
    queue = [1]
    while queue:
        node = heappop(queue)
        if not visited[node]:
            visited[node] = True
            sequence.append(node)
            for neighbor in graph[node]:
                if not visited[neighbor]:
                    heappush(queue, neighbor)
    return sequence

This function takes the number of nodes n, the number of edges m, and the arrays a and b as input, and returns the smallest lexicographical sequence of nodes that can be visited.

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