### Sigh's blog

By Sigh, history, 18 months ago,

Original problem: 1592E - Скучающий Бакри

I somehow misread the problem into this: you are required to find a subsequence [L,R], such that the value $a_L & ... & a_R - a_L ^ ... ^ a_R$ is maximized.

I only come up with a O(nlognlogV) solution, where V is maximum value that an $a_i$ can take.

Here's my solution:

First, suppose we consider all possible subsequences with left endpoint L.

Since as r increase, AND(L,r) decrease, and there are only logV possible different values for it, we can divide all possible r values into logV segments, within each AND(L,r) is constant.

Now we need to find least value for XOR(L,r) in each segment. Note that XOR(L,r) = PREFIX_XOR(r) ^ PREFIX_XOR(L-1), if we have a Trie tree for each PREFIX_XOR(i) in the segment, walking on it according to digits of PREFIX_XOR(L-1) yields the least XOR.

However we cannot afford to build Trie tree for every query. We can build a segment tree for segment (1,n), and build a Trie tree for each segment tree node. That way both space and time complexity will be O(nlognlogV).

I'm not sure if algorithms with better complexity exist, can u guys help me?

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