The orbit problem in higher dimensions

  • Authors:
  • Ventsislav Chonev;Joël Ouaknine;James Worrell

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We consider higher-dimensional versions of Kannan and Lipton's Orbit Problem---determining whether a target vector space V may be reached from a starting point x under repeated applications of a linear transformation A. Answering two questions posed by Kannan and Lipton in the 1980s, we show that when V has dimension one, this problem is solvable in polynomial time, and when V has dimension two or three, the problem is in NPRP.