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1960. Maximum Product of the Length of Two Palindromic Substrings
Level
Hard
Description
You are given a 0-indexed string s and are tasked with finding two non-intersecting palindromic substrings of odd length such that the product of their lengths is maximized.
More formally, you want to choose four integers i, j, k, l such that 0 <= i <= j < k <= l < s.length and both the substrings s[i...j] and s[k...l] are palindromes and have odd lengths. s[i...j] denotes a substring from index i to index j inclusive.
Return the maximum possible product of the lengths of the two non-intersecting palindromic substrings.
A palindrome is a string that is the same forward and backward. A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters in a string.
Example 1:
Input: s = “ababbb”
Output: 9
Explanation: Substrings “aba” and “bbb” are palindromes with odd length. product = 3 * 3 = 9.
Example 2:
Input: s = “zaaaxbbby”
Output: 9
Explanation: Substrings “aaa” and “bbb” are palindromes with odd length. product = 3 * 3 = 9.
Constraints:
2 <= s.length <= 10^5sconsists of lowercase English letters.
Solution
Use Manacher’s Algorithm. For each position in s, find the length of the longest palindrome that has the center at the position. Then find two non-overlapping longest palindromes and return their product.
class Solution {
public long maxProduct(String s) {
int length = s.length();
int[] span = new int[length];
for (int i = 0, l = 0, r = -1; i < length; i++) {
span[i] = i <= r ? Math.min(span[l + r - i], r - i + 1) : 1;
while (i - span[i] >= 0 && i + span[i] < length && s.charAt(i - span[i]) == s.charAt(i + span[i]))
span[i]++;
if (i + span[i] - 1 > r) {
l = i - span[i] + 1;
r = i + span[i] - 1;
}
}
int[] pre = new int[length];
int[] suf = new int[length];
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
pre[i + span[i] - 1] = Math.max(pre[i + span[i] - 1], span[i] * 2 - 1);
suf[i - span[i] + 1] = Math.max(suf[i - span[i] + 1], span[i] * 2 - 1);
}
for (int i = 1; i < length; i++)
pre[i] = Math.max(pre[i], pre[i - 1]);
for (int i = length - 2; i >= 0; i--)
pre[i] = Math.max(pre[i], pre[i + 1] - 2);
for (int i = length - 2; i >= 0; i--)
suf[i] = Math.max(suf[i], suf[i + 1]);
for (int i = 1; i < length; i++)
suf[i] = Math.max(suf[i], suf[i - 1] - 2);
long product = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < length - 1; i++)
product = Math.max(product, (long) pre[i] * suf[i + 1]);
return product;
}
}