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A short note on Merlin-Arthur protocols for subset sum

Computational Complexity 2016-02-05 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

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(t)O^*(\sqrt{t}) of what the number of solutions is that can be constructed in O(t)O^*(t) time and can be probabilistically verified in time O(t)O^*(\sqrt{t}) with at most constant error probability. Here, the O()O^*() notation omits factors polynomial in the input size nlog(t)n\log(t).

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@article{arxiv.1602.01819,
  title  = {A short note on Merlin-Arthur protocols for subset sum},
  author = {Jesper Nederlof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01819},
  year   = {2016}
}

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