Sampling Short Lattice Vectors and the Closest Lattice Vector Problem

  • Authors:
  • Miklos Ajtai;Ravi Kumar;D. Sivakumar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CCC '02 Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Annual Conference on Computational Complexity
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a 2^{O(n)} time Turing reduction from the closest lattice vector problem to the shortest lattice vector problem. Our reduction assumes access to a subroutine that solves SVP exactly and a subroutine to sample short vectors from a lattice, and computes a (1+epsilon)-approximation to CVP. As a consequence, using the SVP algorithm due to Ajtai et al (STOC 2001), we obtain a randomized 2^{O(1 + (1/epsilon))n} algorithm to obtain a (1 + epsilon)-approximation for the closest lattice vector problem in n dimensions. This improves the existing time bound of O(n!) for CVP (achieved by a deterministic algorithm of Blomer).