Solving sparse rational linear systems

  • Authors:
  • Wayne Eberly;Mark Giesbrecht;Pascal Giorgi;Arne Storjohann;Gilles Villard

  • Affiliations:
  • U. Calgary;U. Waterloo;U. Waterloo;U. Waterloo;École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a new algorithm to find a rational solution to a sparse system of linear equations over the integers. This algorithm is based on a p-adic lifting technique combined with the use of block matrices with structured blocks. It achieves a sub-cubic complexity in terms of machine operations subject to a conjecture on the effectiveness of certain sparse projections. A LinBox-based implementation of this algorithm is demonstrated, and emphasizes the practical benefits of this new method over the previous state of the art.