Randomized NP-completeness for p-adic rational roots of sparse polynomials in one variable

  • Authors:
  • Martín Avendaño;Ashraf Ibrahim;J. Maurice Rojas;Korben Rusek

  • Affiliations:
  • TAMU, College Station, TX;TAMU, College Station, TX;TAMU, College Station, TX;TAMU, College Station, TX

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Relative to the sparse encoding, we show that deciding whether a univariate polynomial has a p-adic rational root can be done in NP for most inputs. We also prove a sharper complexity upper bound of P for polynomials with suitably generic p-adic Newton polygon. The best previous complexity upper bound was EXPTIME. We then prove an unconditional complexity lower bound of NP-hardness with respect to randomized reductions, for general univariate polynomials. The best previous lower bound assumed an unproved hypothesis on the distribution of primes in arithmetic progression. We also discuss analogous results over R.