Let $S$ be a string of lower case English letters. If there can be found all subsequences of length $L$ in $S$, then $S$ can be divided into $L$ segments, each contains all the 26 letters, which implies the length of $S$ is at least $26L$.
This observation leads us to a solution to the problem. Let $\dp[i]$ be the maximum number of the aforementioned segments that the suffix of $S$ that starts at index $i$ can be divided into. The DP can be done in $O(|S|)$ time. The shortest string that is not a subsequence of $S$ has a length of $M = \dp[0] + 1$ ($S$ is 0-indexed).
Let $\next[i][j]$ be the position of the first occurrence of letter $j$ to the right of position $i$ (including position $i$). We can compute the $\next$ array in $O(26|S|)$ time.
Using the $\next$ and $\dp$ arrays, we can construct the answer as follows:
Start with an empty string $T$. Iterate the $\dp[0] + 1$ positions of the answer string from left to right. For each position $i$, iterate over the letters from 'a' to 'z'. For each letter $j$, check whether it is possible to get an answer if we append $j$ to $T$. Let $T' = Tj$, find the end of first occurrence of subsequence $T'$ in $S$, denote this position as $k$, it is ok to append letter $j$ to $T$ if suffix $k$ of $S$ does not contain all subsequences of length $M - |T| - 1$ i.e. $\dp[k] < M - |T| - 1$. This check can be done efficiently, see the following code for detail.
code
int main() {
string s;
scan(s);
int n = SZ(s);
vb vis(26);
int cnt = 0;
vi dp(n + 1);
int length = 0;
down (i, n - 1, 0) {
if (!vis[s[i] - 'a']) {
vis[s[i] - 'a'] = true;
++cnt;
if (cnt == 26) {
++length;
fill(all(vis), false);
cnt = 0;
}
}
dp[i] = length;
}
vv next(n, vi(26));
fill(all(next.back()), n);
next.back()[s.back() - 'a'] = n - 1;
down (i, n - 2, 0) {
rng(j, 0, 26) {
next[i][j] = s[i] - 'a' == j ? i : next[i + 1][j];
}
}
++length;
int pos = 0;
while (length > 0) {
rng (j, 0, 26) {
int t = next[pos][j];
if (t < n && dp[t + 1] == length - 1) continue;
if (t < n) {
pos = t + 1;
}
cout << char('a' + j);
break;
}
--length;
}
cout << '\n';
return 0;
}