LC 5
Longest Palindromic Substring
Medium · LC 1–100
Candidate solution routes
Center expansion / Manacher palindrome
Invariant: At loop entry s[l+1:r] is palindromic; equal new endpoints preserve symmetry.
candidate confidence: 0.612 · metadata_only
Linear dynamic programming
Invariant: After processing i, every state through i equals the true value under its definition, and every future transition reads only these finalized states.
candidate confidence: 0.470 · metadata_only
Opposite-Direction Two Pointers
Invariant: Every uneliminated pair uses endpoints inside [l,r]; a moved endpoint is proven unable to pair with any remaining opposite endpoint to satisfy the goal.
candidate confidence: 0.452 · metadata_only
Same-Direction / Read-Write Pointers
Invariant: After processing a[0:read], a[0:write] is exactly its correct stable filtered output, with write no farther than read+1.
candidate confidence: 0.434 · metadata_only
How to use this page
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