I am currently solving ACM Timus 2058 , a problem about palindromes.
In palindromic tree every node represents a distinct palindrome (lets say , p) in a string and this node links to another node which represents the longest proper suffix of it(p) which is a palindrome. Eg. If a node u represents "aabaa" then it's link will be a node v which represents "aa", since "aa" is longest palindromic suffix of "aabaa".
When solving that problem, I observed an interesting property (and I could not prove it's correctness) about palindrome.
[ Note : If X is a string , then here by (X^n) I mean concatenation of n X string. If X="ab" then X^3= "ababab". And XY represent concatenation of X and Y . X="a" ,Y="b" then XY="ab" ]
Property-1: " _If a palindrome P has longest palindromic suffix Q and if | length of Q | >= (| length of P | / 2)
then palindrome P has a structure like (X^n)Y
where n>=2 , X and Y are string ( | Y | < | X | and Y could be a null string ). Here, X will be a prefix of P and length of X= |P|-|Q|.
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Eg-1 : If X='aba' and Y=''(NULL) then 'abaaba' = (X^2), 'abaabaaba' = (X^3), 'abaabaabaaba = (X^4)' etc If X='bba' and Y='bb' then 'bbabbabb' = [(X^2)Y], 'bbabbabbabb' = [(X^3)Y] , 'bbabbabbabbabb' = [(X^4)Y] etc
EG (of property): P="bbabbabbabb" and longest suffix palindrome of it is Q="bbabbabb" then by property X="bba". Now P can be represent as XXXY, where Y="bb" .
And then Y would be a palindrome too.
But everything depends on Property-1. I did some paper works and found it happens. But I think it is not enough to find the correctness of the property.
So I want to ask : " Is property-1 correct?"
If not then can anyone provide me any example? I think everyone face this property when solving ACM Timus 2058 (I may be wrong though).
Thanks in advance.
[ Sorry For my bad English. I tried my best to explain ,though I am not good at explaining. If you don't understand any part of it , you can ask me ]