Finding a vector orthogonal to roughly half a collection of vectors

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Charbit;Emmanuel Jeandel;Pascal Koiran;Sylvain Perifel;Stéphan Thomassé

  • Affiliations:
  • LIAFA, UMR 7089 CNRS - Université Paris 7, France;LIF, UMR 6166 - Universités de la Méditérannée et de Provence, France;LIP, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, UMR 5668 ENS Lyon, CNRS, UCBL, INRIA, France;LIP, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, UMR 5668 ENS Lyon, CNRS, UCBL, INRIA, France;LIRMM, UMR 5506 CNRS - Université Montpellier II, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Complexity
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Dimitri Grigoriev has shown that for any family of N vectors in the d-dimensional linear space E=(F"2)^d, there exists a vector in E which is orthogonal to at least N/3 and at most 2N/3 vectors of the family. We show that the range [N/3,2N/3] can be replaced by the much smaller range [N/2-N/2,N/2+N/2] and we give an efficient, deterministic parallel algorithm which finds a vector achieving this bound. The optimality of the bound is also investigated.