- Longest repeated substring problem
The longest repeated substring problem is finding the longest
substring of a string that occurs at least twice. This problem can be solved in linear time and space by building asuffix tree for the string, and finding the deepest internal node in the tree. The string spelled by the edges from the root to such a node is a longest repeated substring. The problem of finding the longest substring with at least occurrences can be found by first preprocessing the tree to count the number of leaf descendants for each internal node, and then finding the deepest node with at least descendants.
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