18th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC'03)
Improved Inapproximability of Lattice and Coding Problems with Preprocessing
Aarhus, Denmark
July 07-July 10
ISBN: 0-7695-1879-6
We show that the closest vector problem with preprocessing (CVPP) is NP-hard to approximate to within \sqrt {3 - \varepsilon } for any \varepsilon > 0. In addition, we show that the nearest codeword problem with preprocessing (NCPP) is NP-hard to approximate to within 3 -\varepsilon . These results improve the results of Feige and Micciancio in [10]. We also present the first Inapproximability result for the relatively nearest codeword problem with preprocessing (RNCP). Finally, we describe an n-approximation algorithm to CVPP.