Note on a Lower Bound on the Linear Complexity of the Fast Fourier Transform

  • Authors:
  • Jacques Morgenstern

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathématiques et Sciences Théoriques, Université de Nice, Nice, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1973

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Abstract

A lower bound for the number of additions necessary to compute a family of linear functions by a linear algorithm is given when an upper bound c can be assigned to the modulus of the complex numbers involved in the computation. In the case of the fast Fourier transform, the lower bound is (n/2) log2n when c = 1.