# Modular Subset Sum, Dynamic Strings, and Zero-Sum Sets

@inproceedings{Cardinal2021ModularSS,
title={Modular Subset Sum, Dynamic Strings, and Zero-Sum Sets},
author={Jean Cardinal and John Iacono},
booktitle={SOSA},
year={2021}
}
• Published in SOSA 19 August 2020
• Mathematics
The modular subset sum problem consists of deciding, given a modulus $m$, a multiset $S$ of $n$ integers in $0..m$, and a target integer $t$, whether there exists a subset of $S$ with elements summing to $t \pmod{m}$, and to report such a set if it exists. We give a simple $O(m \log m)$-time with high probability (w.h.p.) algorithm for the modular subset sum problem. This builds on and improves on a previous $\tilde{O}(m)$ w.h.p. algorithm from Axiotis, Backurs, Jin, Tzamos, and Wu (SODA 19…
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