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arxiv: 1602.01819 · v1 · pith:AFO2KBM3new · submitted 2016-02-04 · 💻 cs.CC · cs.DS

A short note on Merlin-Arthur protocols for subset sum

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keywords subsetgivenintegersnoteshortsizesqrttime
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In the subset sum problem we are given n positive integers along with a target integer t. A solution is a subset of these integers summing to t. In this short note we show that for a given subset sum instance there is a proof of size $O^*(\sqrt{t})$ of what the number of solutions is that can be constructed in $O^*(t)$ time and can be probabilistically verified in time $O^*(\sqrt{t})$ with at most constant error probability. Here, the $O^*()$ notation omits factors polynomial in the input size $n\log(t)$.

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