Short vectors of planar lattices via continued fractions

  • Authors:
  • Friedrich Eisenbrand

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We show that a shortest vector of a 2-dimensional integral lattice with respect to the lsub-infinity-norm can be computed with a constant number of extended-gcd computations, one common-convergent computation and a constant number of arithmetic operations. It follows that in two dimensions, a fast basis-reduction algorithm can be solely based on Schönhage's classical algorithm on the fast computation of continued fractions and the reduction algorithm of Gauss.