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

  • Authors:
  • Mark van Hoeij;Andrew Novocin

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida State University, FL;LIP/INRIA/ENS, Lyon Cedex 07, France

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'10 Proceedings of the 9th Latin American conference on Theoretical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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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.