Hardness of approximating the Shortest Vector Problem in high ℓp norms

  • Authors:
  • Subhash Khot

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences - Special issue on FOCS 2003
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a new hardness of approximation result for the Shortest Vector Problem in @?"p norm (denoted by SVP"p). Assuming NP @? ZPP, we show that for every @e0, there is a constant p(@e) such that for all integers p=p(@e), the problem SVP"p has no polynomial time approximation algorithm with approximation ratio p^1^-^@e. For large values of p, this improves the factor 2^1^/^p-@d hardness shown by Micciancio [The shortest vector problems in NP-hard to approximate to within some constant, SIAM J. Comput. 30(6) (2001) 2008-2035].