1960. Maximum Product of the Length of Two Palindromic Substrings ¶
Problem
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 <= 105
s
consists of lowercase English letters.