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Parameterized Intractability of Even Set and Shortest Vector Problem

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posted on 2023-11-29, 18:06 authored by Arnab Bhattacharyya, Édouard Bonnet, László Egri, Suprovat Ghoshal, C. S. Karthik, Bingkai Lin, Pasin Manurangsi, Dániel MarxDániel Marx
The -Even Set problem is a parameterized variant of the Minimum Distance Problem of linear codes over , which can be stated as follows: given a generator matrix and an integer , determine whether the code generated by has distance at most , or, in other words, whether there is a nonzero vector such that has at most nonzero coordinates. The question of whether -Even Set is fixed parameter tractable (FPT) parameterized by the distance has been repeatedly raised in the literature; in fact, it is one of the few remaining open questions from the seminal book of Downey and Fellows [1999]. In this work, we show that -Even Set is W[1]-hard under randomized reductions. We also consider the parameterized -Shortest Vector Problem (SVP), in which we are given a lattice whose basis vectors are integral and an integer , and the goal is to determine whether the norm of the shortest vector (in the norm for some fixed ) is at most . Similar to -Even Set, understanding the complexity of this problem is also a long-standing open question in the field of Parameterized Complexity. We show that, for any , -SVP is W[1]-hard to approximate (under randomized reductions) to some constant factor.

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Arnab Bhattacharyya, Édouard Bonnet, László Egri, Suprovat Ghoshal, C. Karthik, Bingkai Lin, Pasin Manurangsi and Dániel Marx. Parameterized Intractability of Even Set and Shortest Vector Problem. In: Journal of the ACM. 2021.

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  • Algorithmic Foundations and Cryptography

Legacy Posted Date

2022-04-29

Journal

Journal of the ACM

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1 - 40

Open Access Type

  • Gold

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  • Article

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@article{cispa_all_3626, title = "Parameterized Intractability of Even Set and Shortest Vector Problem", author = "Bhattacharyya, Arnab and Bonnet, Édouard and Egri, László and Ghoshal, Suprovat and Karthik, C. S. and Lin, Bingkai and Manurangsi, Pasin and Marx, Dániel", journal="{Journal of the ACM}", year="2021", }

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