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Gradual sub-lattice reduction and a new complexity for factoring polynomials

Symbolic Computation 2010-02-04 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We present a lattice algorithm specifically designed for some classical applications of lattice reduction. The applications are for lattice bases with a generalized knapsack-type structure, where the target vectors are boundably short. For such applications, the complexity of the algorithm improves traditional lattice reduction by replacing some dependence on the bit-length of the input vectors by some dependence on the bound for the output vectors. If the bit-length of the target vectors is unrelated to the bit-length of the input, then our algorithm is only linear in the bit-length of the input entries, which is an improvement over the quadratic complexity floating-point LLL algorithms. To illustrate the usefulness of this algorithm we show that a direct application to factoring univariate polynomials over the integers leads to the first complexity bound improvement since 1984. A second application is algebraic number reconstruction, where a new complexity bound is obtained as well.

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@article{arxiv.1002.0739,
  title  = {Gradual sub-lattice reduction and a new complexity for factoring polynomials},
  author = {Mark Van Hoeij and Andrew Novocin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0739},
  year   = {2010}
}
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