Problem:
Score : 600 points

Problem Statement

You are given an integer sequence A of length N and an integer K.
You will perform the following operation on this sequence Q times:

Choose a contiguous subsequence of length K, then remove the smallest element among the K elements contained in the chosen subsequence (if there are multiple such elements, choose one of them as you like).

Let X and Y be the values of the largest and smallest element removed in the Q operations. You would like X-Y to be as small as possible.
Find the smallest possible value of X-Y when the Q operations are performed optimally.

Constraints

1 \leq N \leq 2000

1 \leq K \leq N

1 \leq Q \leq N-K+1

1 \leq A_i \leq 10^9

All values in input are integers.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N K Q
A_1 A_2 ... A_N

Output

Print the smallest possible value of X-Y.

Sample Input 1

5 3 2
4 3 1 5 2

Sample Output 1

1

In the first operation, whichever contiguous subsequence of length 3 we choose, the minimum element in it is 1.
Thus, the first operation removes A_3=1 and now we have A=(4,3,5,2).
In the second operation, it is optimal to choose (A_2,A_3,A_4)=(3,5,2) as the contiguous subsequence of length 3 and remove A_4=2.
In this case, the largest element removed is 2, and the smallest is 1, so their difference is 2-1=1.

Sample Input 2

10 1 6
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55

Sample Output 2

7

Sample Input 3

11 7 5
24979445 861648772 623690081 433933447 476190629 262703497 211047202 971407775 628894325 731963982 822804784

Sample Output 3

451211184

Solution in Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)



import java.io.*;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.util.List;

public class Main {


    public void solve(int testNumber, InputReader in, OutputWriter out) {

        int n = in.nextInt();


        int k = in.nextInt();

        int q = in.nextInt();

        Integer[] a = new Integer[n];
        int[] b = new int[n];

        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            a[i] = in.nextInt();
            b[i] = a[i];
        }

        Arrays.sort(a);

        long ans = a[n - 1] - a[0];

        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {

//            int lo = i;
//            int hi = n - 1;
//
//            while (lo <= hi) {
//                int mid = (lo + hi) / 2;

            int lii = -1;
            long ca = 0;

            List<Integer> cl = new ArrayList<>();
            List<Integer> cll = new ArrayList<>();

            for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
                if (b[j] < a[i]) {
                    int sl = j - lii - 1;

                    if (sl >= k) {
                        ca += sl - k + 1;
                        cll.sort((x, y) -> x - y);
                        cl.addAll(cll.subList(0, sl - k + 1));
                    }
                    cll.clear();

                    lii = j;
                } else {
                    cll.add(b[j]);
                }
            }

            int sl = n - lii - 1;

            if (sl >= k) {
                cl.addAll(cll);
                ca += sl - k + 1;
            }

            if (ca >= q) {
                cl.sort((x, y) -> x - y);
                ans = Math.min(ans, cl.get(q - 1) - cl.get(0));
            }
        }

        System.out.println(ans);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        InputReader in = new InputReader(inputStream);
        OutputWriter out = new OutputWriter(outputStream);
        Main solver = new Main();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class OutputWriter {
        private final PrintWriter writer;

        public OutputWriter(OutputStream outputStream) {
            writer = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream)));
        }

        public OutputWriter(Writer writer) {
            this.writer = new PrintWriter(writer);
        }

        public void print(Object... objects) {
            for (int i = 0; i < objects.length; i++) {
                if (i != 0) {
                    writer.print(' ');
                }
                writer.print(objects[i]);
            }
        }

        public void println(Object... objects) {
            print(objects);
            writer.println();
        }

        public void close() {
            writer.close();
        }

        public void println(long i) {
            writer.println(i);
        }

    }

    public static class InputReader {
        private boolean finished = false;

        private InputStream stream;
        private byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        private int curChar;
        private int numChars;
        private InputReader.SpaceCharFilter filter;

        public InputReader(InputStream stream) {
            this.stream = stream;
        }

        public static boolean isWhitespace(int c) {
            return c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\r' || c == '\t' || c == -1;
        }

        public int read() {
            if (numChars == -1) {
                throw new InputMismatchException();
            }
            if (curChar >= numChars) {
                curChar = 0;
                try {
                    numChars = stream.read(buf);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                if (numChars <= 0) {
                    return -1;
                }
            }
            return buf[curChar++];
        }

        public int peek() {
            if (numChars == -1) {
                return -1;
            }
            if (curChar >= numChars) {
                curChar = 0;
                try {
                    numChars = stream.read(buf);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    return -1;
                }
                if (numChars <= 0) {
                    return -1;
                }
            }
            return buf[curChar];
        }

        public int nextInt() {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c)) {
                c = read();
            }
            int sgn = 1;
            if (c == '-') {
                sgn = -1;
                c = read();
            }
            int res = 0;
            do {
                if (c < '0' || c > '9') {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                res *= 10;
                res += c - '0';
                c = read();
            } while (!isSpaceChar(c));
            return res * sgn;
        }

        public long nextLong() {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c)) {
                c = read();
            }
            int sgn = 1;
            if (c == '-') {
                sgn = -1;
                c = read();
            }
            long res = 0;
            do {
                if (c < '0' || c > '9') {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                res *= 10;
                res += c - '0';
                c = read();
            } while (!isSpaceChar(c));
            return res * sgn;
        }

        public String nextString() {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c)) {
                c = read();
            }
            StringBuilder res = new StringBuilder();
            do {
                if (Character.isValidCodePoint(c)) {
                    res.appendCodePoint(c);
                }
                c = read();
            } while (!isSpaceChar(c));
            return res.toString();
        }

        public boolean isSpaceChar(int c) {
            if (filter != null) {
                return filter.isSpaceChar(c);
            }
            return isWhitespace(c);
        }

        private String readLine0() {
            StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
            int c = read();
            while (c != '\n' && c != -1) {
                if (c != '\r') {
                    buf.appendCodePoint(c);
                }
                c = read();
            }
            return buf.toString();
        }

        public String readLine() {
            String s = readLine0();
            while (s.trim().length() == 0) {
                s = readLine0();
            }
            return s;
        }

        public String readLine(boolean ignoreEmptyLines) {
            if (ignoreEmptyLines) {
                return readLine();
            } else {
                return readLine0();
            }
        }

        public BigInteger readBigInteger() {
            try {
                return new BigInteger(nextString());
            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                throw new InputMismatchException();
            }
        }

        public char nextCharacter() {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c)) {
                c = read();
            }
            return (char) c;
        }

        public double nextDouble() {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c)) {
                c = read();
            }
            int sgn = 1;
            if (c == '-') {
                sgn = -1;
                c = read();
            }
            double res = 0;
            while (!isSpaceChar(c) && c != '.') {
                if (c == 'e' || c == 'E') {
                    return res * Math.pow(10, nextInt());
                }
                if (c < '0' || c > '9') {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                res *= 10;
                res += c - '0';
                c = read();
            }
            if (c == '.') {
                c = read();
                double m = 1;
                while (!isSpaceChar(c)) {
                    if (c == 'e' || c == 'E') {
                        return res * Math.pow(10, nextInt());
                    }
                    if (c < '0' || c > '9') {
                        throw new InputMismatchException();
                    }
                    m /= 10;
                    res += (c - '0') * m;
                    c = read();
                }
            }
            return res * sgn;
        }

        public boolean isExhausted() {
            int value;
            while (isSpaceChar(value = peek()) && value != -1) {
                read();
            }
            return value == -1;
        }

        public String next() {
            return nextString();
        }

        public InputReader.SpaceCharFilter getFilter() {
            return filter;
        }

        public void setFilter(InputReader.SpaceCharFilter filter) {
            this.filter = filter;
        }

        public int[] nextIntArray(int n) {
            int[] array = new int[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) array[i] = nextInt();
            return array;
        }

        public int[] nextSortedIntArray(int n) {
            int array[] = nextIntArray(n);
            Arrays.sort(array);
            return array;
        }

        public int[] nextSumIntArray(int n) {
            int[] array = new int[n];
            array[0] = nextInt();
            for (int i = 1; i < n; ++i) array[i] = array[i - 1] + nextInt();
            return array;
        }

        public long[] nextLongArray(int n) {
            long[] array = new long[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) array[i] = nextLong();
            return array;
        }

        public long[] nextSumLongArray(int n) {
            long[] array = new long[n];
            array[0] = nextInt();
            for (int i = 1; i < n; ++i) array[i] = array[i - 1] + nextInt();
            return array;
        }

        public long[] nextSortedLongArray(int n) {
            long array[] = nextLongArray(n);
            Arrays.sort(array);
            return array;
        }

        public interface SpaceCharFilter {
            public boolean isSpaceChar(int ch);
        }
    }
}