Fast integer multiplication using generalized Fermat primes
Symbolic Computation
2018-04-18 v4 Computational Complexity
Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract
For almost 35 years, Sch{\"o}nhage-Strassen's algorithm has been the fastest algorithm known for multiplying integers, with a time complexity O(n log n log log n) for multiplying n-bit inputs. In 2007, F{\"u}rer proved that there exists K > 1 and an algorithm performing this operation in O(n log n K log n). Recent work by Harvey, van der Hoeven, and Lecerf showed that this complexity estimate can be improved in order to get K = 8, and conjecturally K = 4. Using an alternative algorithm, which relies on arithmetic modulo generalized Fermat primes, we obtain conjecturally the same result K = 4 via a careful complexity analysis in the deterministic multitape Turing model.
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@article{arxiv.1502.02800,
title = {Fast integer multiplication using generalized Fermat primes},
author = {Svyatoslav Covanov and Emmanuel Thomé},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02800},
year = {2018}
}