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We know that the longest common substring of two strings can be found in O(N^2) time complexity.
Can a solution be found in only linear time?






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    We know that the longest common substring of two strings can be found in O(N^2) time complexity.
    Can a solution be found in only linear time?






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      We know that the longest common substring of two strings can be found in O(N^2) time complexity.
      Can a solution be found in only linear time?






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      We know that the longest common substring of two strings can be found in O(N^2) time complexity.
      Can a solution be found in only linear time?






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          Yes, the longest common substring of two strings can be found in $O(m+n)$ time, where $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of the two strings, assuming the size of the alphabet is constant.



          Here is an excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem.




          The longest common substrings of a set of strings can be found by building a generalized suffix tree for the strings, and then finding the deepest internal nodes which have leaf nodes from all the strings in the subtree below it.




          Building a generalized suffix tree for two given strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time using the famous ingenious Ukkonen's algorithm. Finding the deepest internal nodes that come from both strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time. Hence we can find the longest common substring in $Theta(m+n)$ time.






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          It is unlikely that that a better algorithm than quadratic exists, let alone linear. For the related problem of finding subsequences, this is a known result: In the paper "Tight hardness results for LCS and other sequence similarity measures." by Abboud et al. , they show that the existence of an algorithm with a running time of $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$, for some $varepsilon>0$ refutes the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH).



          SETH is considered to be very likely true (although not universally accepted), so it is unlikely any $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$ time algorithm exists.




          While finding a substring is a slightly different problem, it seems likely to be equally hard.






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            are you talking about subsequence? I am talking about substring.
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            @ManoharsinhRana Ah, I see. The problems are similar, and it is hard to find results for the string variant. I think there are similar results for the substring problem, but they are not easy to find. You could try looking at papers that cite "Quadratic conditional lower bounds for string problems and dynamic time warping" by Bringmann and Künnemann, as their program lead to a lot of results related to this problem.
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            Longest common substring is much easier than longest common subsequence. See my answer.
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          Yes. There's even a Wikipedia article about it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem



          In particular, as Wikipedia explains, there is a linear-time algorithm, using suffix trees (or suffix arrays).



          Searching on "longest common substring" turns up that Wikipedia article as the first hit (for me). In the future, please research the problem before asking here. (See, e.g., https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/261592/781723.)






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            Yes, the longest common substring of two strings can be found in $O(m+n)$ time, where $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of the two strings, assuming the size of the alphabet is constant.



            Here is an excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem.




            The longest common substrings of a set of strings can be found by building a generalized suffix tree for the strings, and then finding the deepest internal nodes which have leaf nodes from all the strings in the subtree below it.




            Building a generalized suffix tree for two given strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time using the famous ingenious Ukkonen's algorithm. Finding the deepest internal nodes that come from both strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time. Hence we can find the longest common substring in $Theta(m+n)$ time.






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              I did not see @D.W's answer, possibly because I was interrupted while writing my answer.
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            $begingroup$

            Yes, the longest common substring of two strings can be found in $O(m+n)$ time, where $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of the two strings, assuming the size of the alphabet is constant.



            Here is an excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem.




            The longest common substrings of a set of strings can be found by building a generalized suffix tree for the strings, and then finding the deepest internal nodes which have leaf nodes from all the strings in the subtree below it.




            Building a generalized suffix tree for two given strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time using the famous ingenious Ukkonen's algorithm. Finding the deepest internal nodes that come from both strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time. Hence we can find the longest common substring in $Theta(m+n)$ time.






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              I did not see @D.W's answer, possibly because I was interrupted while writing my answer.
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            Yes, the longest common substring of two strings can be found in $O(m+n)$ time, where $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of the two strings, assuming the size of the alphabet is constant.



            Here is an excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem.




            The longest common substrings of a set of strings can be found by building a generalized suffix tree for the strings, and then finding the deepest internal nodes which have leaf nodes from all the strings in the subtree below it.




            Building a generalized suffix tree for two given strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time using the famous ingenious Ukkonen's algorithm. Finding the deepest internal nodes that come from both strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time. Hence we can find the longest common substring in $Theta(m+n)$ time.






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            Yes, the longest common substring of two strings can be found in $O(m+n)$ time, where $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of the two strings, assuming the size of the alphabet is constant.



            Here is an excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem.




            The longest common substrings of a set of strings can be found by building a generalized suffix tree for the strings, and then finding the deepest internal nodes which have leaf nodes from all the strings in the subtree below it.




            Building a generalized suffix tree for two given strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time using the famous ingenious Ukkonen's algorithm. Finding the deepest internal nodes that come from both strings takes $Theta(m+n)$ time. Hence we can find the longest common substring in $Theta(m+n)$ time.







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              I did not see @D.W's answer, possibly because I was interrupted while writing my answer.
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            It is unlikely that that a better algorithm than quadratic exists, let alone linear. For the related problem of finding subsequences, this is a known result: In the paper "Tight hardness results for LCS and other sequence similarity measures." by Abboud et al. , they show that the existence of an algorithm with a running time of $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$, for some $varepsilon>0$ refutes the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH).



            SETH is considered to be very likely true (although not universally accepted), so it is unlikely any $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$ time algorithm exists.




            While finding a substring is a slightly different problem, it seems likely to be equally hard.






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              are you talking about subsequence? I am talking about substring.
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              – Manoharsinh Rana
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              @ManoharsinhRana Ah, I see. The problems are similar, and it is hard to find results for the string variant. I think there are similar results for the substring problem, but they are not easy to find. You could try looking at papers that cite "Quadratic conditional lower bounds for string problems and dynamic time warping" by Bringmann and Künnemann, as their program lead to a lot of results related to this problem.
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              – Discrete lizard♦
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              Longest common substring is much easier than longest common subsequence. See my answer.
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              – D.W.♦
              33 mins ago
















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            $begingroup$

            It is unlikely that that a better algorithm than quadratic exists, let alone linear. For the related problem of finding subsequences, this is a known result: In the paper "Tight hardness results for LCS and other sequence similarity measures." by Abboud et al. , they show that the existence of an algorithm with a running time of $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$, for some $varepsilon>0$ refutes the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH).



            SETH is considered to be very likely true (although not universally accepted), so it is unlikely any $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$ time algorithm exists.




            While finding a substring is a slightly different problem, it seems likely to be equally hard.






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              are you talking about subsequence? I am talking about substring.
              $endgroup$
              – Manoharsinh Rana
              1 hour ago












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              @ManoharsinhRana Ah, I see. The problems are similar, and it is hard to find results for the string variant. I think there are similar results for the substring problem, but they are not easy to find. You could try looking at papers that cite "Quadratic conditional lower bounds for string problems and dynamic time warping" by Bringmann and Künnemann, as their program lead to a lot of results related to this problem.
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              – Discrete lizard♦
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              Longest common substring is much easier than longest common subsequence. See my answer.
              $endgroup$
              – D.W.♦
              33 mins ago














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            $begingroup$

            It is unlikely that that a better algorithm than quadratic exists, let alone linear. For the related problem of finding subsequences, this is a known result: In the paper "Tight hardness results for LCS and other sequence similarity measures." by Abboud et al. , they show that the existence of an algorithm with a running time of $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$, for some $varepsilon>0$ refutes the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH).



            SETH is considered to be very likely true (although not universally accepted), so it is unlikely any $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$ time algorithm exists.




            While finding a substring is a slightly different problem, it seems likely to be equally hard.






            share|cite|improve this answer











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            It is unlikely that that a better algorithm than quadratic exists, let alone linear. For the related problem of finding subsequences, this is a known result: In the paper "Tight hardness results for LCS and other sequence similarity measures." by Abboud et al. , they show that the existence of an algorithm with a running time of $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$, for some $varepsilon>0$ refutes the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH).



            SETH is considered to be very likely true (although not universally accepted), so it is unlikely any $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$ time algorithm exists.




            While finding a substring is a slightly different problem, it seems likely to be equally hard.







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            • $begingroup$
              are you talking about subsequence? I am talking about substring.
              $endgroup$
              – Manoharsinh Rana
              1 hour ago












            • $begingroup$
              @ManoharsinhRana Ah, I see. The problems are similar, and it is hard to find results for the string variant. I think there are similar results for the substring problem, but they are not easy to find. You could try looking at papers that cite "Quadratic conditional lower bounds for string problems and dynamic time warping" by Bringmann and Künnemann, as their program lead to a lot of results related to this problem.
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              – Discrete lizard♦
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              Longest common substring is much easier than longest common subsequence. See my answer.
              $endgroup$
              – D.W.♦
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            • $begingroup$
              are you talking about subsequence? I am talking about substring.
              $endgroup$
              – Manoharsinh Rana
              1 hour ago












            • $begingroup$
              @ManoharsinhRana Ah, I see. The problems are similar, and it is hard to find results for the string variant. I think there are similar results for the substring problem, but they are not easy to find. You could try looking at papers that cite "Quadratic conditional lower bounds for string problems and dynamic time warping" by Bringmann and Künnemann, as their program lead to a lot of results related to this problem.
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              – Discrete lizard♦
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              Longest common substring is much easier than longest common subsequence. See my answer.
              $endgroup$
              – D.W.♦
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            are you talking about subsequence? I am talking about substring.
            $endgroup$
            – Manoharsinh Rana
            1 hour ago






            $begingroup$
            are you talking about subsequence? I am talking about substring.
            $endgroup$
            – Manoharsinh Rana
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            $begingroup$
            @ManoharsinhRana Ah, I see. The problems are similar, and it is hard to find results for the string variant. I think there are similar results for the substring problem, but they are not easy to find. You could try looking at papers that cite "Quadratic conditional lower bounds for string problems and dynamic time warping" by Bringmann and Künnemann, as their program lead to a lot of results related to this problem.
            $endgroup$
            – Discrete lizard♦
            1 hour ago




            $begingroup$
            @ManoharsinhRana Ah, I see. The problems are similar, and it is hard to find results for the string variant. I think there are similar results for the substring problem, but they are not easy to find. You could try looking at papers that cite "Quadratic conditional lower bounds for string problems and dynamic time warping" by Bringmann and Künnemann, as their program lead to a lot of results related to this problem.
            $endgroup$
            – Discrete lizard♦
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            Longest common substring is much easier than longest common subsequence. See my answer.
            $endgroup$
            – D.W.♦
            33 mins ago




            $begingroup$
            Longest common substring is much easier than longest common subsequence. See my answer.
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            – D.W.♦
            33 mins ago











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            Yes. There's even a Wikipedia article about it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem



            In particular, as Wikipedia explains, there is a linear-time algorithm, using suffix trees (or suffix arrays).



            Searching on "longest common substring" turns up that Wikipedia article as the first hit (for me). In the future, please research the problem before asking here. (See, e.g., https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/261592/781723.)






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              Yes. There's even a Wikipedia article about it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem



              In particular, as Wikipedia explains, there is a linear-time algorithm, using suffix trees (or suffix arrays).



              Searching on "longest common substring" turns up that Wikipedia article as the first hit (for me). In the future, please research the problem before asking here. (See, e.g., https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/261592/781723.)






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                Yes. There's even a Wikipedia article about it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem



                In particular, as Wikipedia explains, there is a linear-time algorithm, using suffix trees (or suffix arrays).



                Searching on "longest common substring" turns up that Wikipedia article as the first hit (for me). In the future, please research the problem before asking here. (See, e.g., https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/261592/781723.)






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                Yes. There's even a Wikipedia article about it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem



                In particular, as Wikipedia explains, there is a linear-time algorithm, using suffix trees (or suffix arrays).



                Searching on "longest common substring" turns up that Wikipedia article as the first hit (for me). In the future, please research the problem before asking here. (See, e.g., https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/261592/781723.)







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                    濃尾地震 『岐阜市街大地震之図』 歌川国利画 本震 発生日 1891年（明治24年）10月28日 発生時刻 6時38分50秒（JST） 震央 日本 岐阜県本巣郡西根尾村（現・本巣市） 北緯35度35分 東経136度20分（ 地図 ） 規模    マグニチュード（M）8.0 最大震度    震度7： 注1 福井県今立郡鯖江町、愛知県葉栗郡大田島村、東春日井郡勝川村 地震の種類 直下型地震 被害 死傷者数 死者7,273人、負傷者17,175人 注1：当時の震度階級では「激烈」 プロジェクト:地球科学 プロジェクト:災害 テンプレートを表示 濃尾地震 （のうびじしん）は、1891年（明治24年）10月28日に濃尾地方で発生した、日本史上最大の内陸地殻内地震。「 美濃・尾張地震 （みの・おわりじしん）」とも呼ばれている。辛卯の年に発生したことから 辛卯震災 と呼んでいる報告書もある。 目次 1 概要 1.1 震源断層 2 被害 3 各地の震度 4 前兆現象 5 報道 6 学術的な意義 7 地震防災 8 脚注 9 関連項目 10 外部リンク 概要 濃尾地震発生当時の根尾谷断層 濃尾地震を引き起こした根尾谷断層 写真中央を斜めに走る段差が根尾谷断層 濃尾地震は、1891年10月28日6時38分50秒に発生した。震源は、岐阜県本巣郡西根尾村（現・本巣市）、北緯35度35分、東経136度20分付近。河角廣 (1951) は岐阜市付近（北緯35.6度、東経136.6度）に震央を仮定し規模 M K = 7.0 を与え [1] 、マグニチュードは M = 8.4 に換算されているが、明治・大正期の地震については0.5程度大きく見積もられているとされる [2] 。また、震央距離と震度との関係など当時のデータから後にM8.0 [3] とも推定される。アメリカ地質調査所 (USGS) でも8.0としている [4] 。「根尾谷断層帯」が活動した典型的な内陸地殻内地震（いわゆる直下型地震）であり、これは記録が残っている日本の内陸...
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