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标题：On the Lattice Distortion Problem
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作者：Huck Bennett ; Daniel Dadush ; Noah Stephens-Davidowitz 等
期刊名称：LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
电子版ISSN：1868-8969
出版年度：2016
卷号：57
页码：9:1-9:17
DOI：10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.9
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：We introduce and study the Lattice Distortion Problem (LDP). LDP asks how "similar" two lattices are. I.e., what is the minimal distortion of a linear bijection between the two lattices? LDP generalizes the Lattice Isomorphism Problem (the lattice analogue of Graph Isomorphism), which simply asks whether the minimal distortion is one. As our first contribution, we show that the distortion between any two lattices is approximated up to a n^{O(log(n))} factor by a simple function of their successive minima. Our methods are constructive, allowing us to compute low-distortion mappings that are within a 2^{O(n*log(log(n))/log(n))} factor of optimal in polynomial time and within a n^{O(log(n))} factor of optimal in singly exponential time. Our algorithms rely on a notion of basis reduction introduced by Seysen (Combinatorica 1993), which we show is intimately related to lattice distortion. Lastly, we show that LDP is NP-hard to approximate to within any constant factor (under randomized reductions), by a reduction from the Shortest Vector Problem.
关键词：lattices; lattice distortion; lattice isomoprhism; geometry of numbers; basis reduction