45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'04) Lattice Problems in NP ∩ coNP Rome, Italy October 17-October 19 ISBN: 0-7695-2228-9
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FOCS.2004.35
We show that the problems of approximating the shortest and closest vector in a lattice to within a factor of \sqrt n lie in Np intersect coNP. The result (almost) subsumes the three mutually-incomparable previous results regarding these lattice problems: Banaszczyk [7], Goldreich and Goldwasser [13], and Aharonov and Regev [2]. Our technique is based on a simple fact regarding succinct approximation of functions using their Fourier transform over the lattice. This technique might be useful elsewhere - we demonstrate this by giving a simple and efficient algorithm for one other lattice problem (CVPP) improving on a previous result of Regev [25]. An interesting fact is that our result emerged from a "dequantization" of our previous quantum result in [2]. This route to proving purely classical results might be beneficial elsewhere.
Citation:
Dorit Aharonov, Oded Regev, "Lattice Problems in NP ∩ coNP," focs, pp.362-371, 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||