Factoring Groups Efficiently

  • Authors:
  • Neeraj Kayal;Timur Nezhmetdinov

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Lab India, Bangalore, India 560080;Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '09 Proceedings of the 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We give a polynomial time algorithm that computes a decomposition of a finite group G given in the form of its multiplication table. That is, given G , the algorithm outputs two subgroups A and B of G such that G is the direct product of A and B , if such a decomposition exists.