2.Periodicity (POI: 18 - solved: 68)

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Given a string S of size n. We define $\text{[math]}$ as follows:

$\text{[math]}$

In other hand, $\text{[math]}$ is a set of sizes of periods A such that S = AAA...AB(B is a prefix of A).

Now, we want to create the minimum lexicographically string C of size n such that $\text{[math]}$ .

There are k such tests.

1 ≤ k ≤ 20, 1 ≤ n ≤ 250000

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3
ABIABUABIAB
BABBAB
BABURBAB
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01001101001
010010
01000010
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Some of hints only make a good look and may not solve the problem. When you look in that way, you'll come close to the solution. And if you didn't look in that way, you won't get the next hints and you'll get confused in 13 spoilers.

hint1

hint2

Some problem just used this idea : 526D - Ам Ням и ожерелье

hint3

hint4

You may have a sense of recursive solving the problem as you see we almost minimized the problem in the minimum period. I agree with you, but see more carefully.

Let's see a period as a suffix which is equal to a prefix of S, what we saw in hint 1.

Tell me if you come up with a easier and shorter answer, I'll become glad.

Code

//    whoisHussain.org
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

const int N = 300011;
int f[N],q, g[N],sz; 
bool a[N];
int32_t main(){
        string s;
        int n;
        ios::sync_with_stdio(false),cin.tie(0), cout.tie(0);
        cin >> q;
        while( q-- ){
                cin >> s;
                n = s.size(), sz = 0;

                f[0] = f[1] = 0;
                for(int i = 2,j = 0; i <= n; i++){
                        while( j!=0 && s[i-1] != s[j] )
                                j = f[j]; 
                        if( s[i-1]==s[j] ) j++;
                        f[i] = j;
                }

                for(int i = n; i; i = f[i] ) g[sz++] = n-i;
                
                for(int i = sz-1, gg = n, cz = 0;i>-1; cz = gg-g[i], gg = g[i], i--){ 
                        for(int j = 0; j < min(gg-g[i], n-gg); j++) a[ j + g[i] ] = a[ j + gg ];
                        if( gg - g[i] > n - gg && (cz == 0 || (gg - g[i]) % cz == 0) ){ 
                                int j = 0;
                                for(; j < cz; j++)
                                        if( a[j + gg-cz ] != a[ gg + j ] ) break;
                                if( j == cz ) a[gg - 1] = 1 - a[gg + cz - 1]; 
                        }
                        a[g[i]] = 0;
                }
                for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
                        printf("%d",a[i]),a[i] = 0;
                printf("\n");
        }
}

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