Algebraic number fields and the LLL algorithm M. J´anos Uray
[email protected] ELTE – E¨otv¨os Lor´and University (Budapest) Faculty of Informatics Department of Computer Algebra Abstract In this paper we analyze the computational costs of various operations and algorithms in algebraic number fields using exact arithmetic. Let K be an algebraic number field. In the first half of the paper, we calculate the running time and the size of the output of many operations in K in terms of the size of the input and the parameters of K. We include some earlier results about these, but we go further than them, e.g. we also analyze some R-specific operations in K like less-than comparison. In the second half of the paper, we analyze two algorithms: the Bareiss algorithm, which is an integer-preserving version of the Gaussian elimination, and the LLL algorithm, which is for lattice basis reduction. In both cases, we extend the algorithm from Zn to Kn, and give a polynomial upper bound on the running time when the computations in K are performed exactly (as opposed to floating-point approximations). 1 Introduction Exact computation with algebraic numbers is an important feature that most computer algebra systems provide. They use efficient algorithms for the calculations, arXiv:1810.01634v2 [cs.SC] 6 Nov 2020 described in several papers and books, e.g. in [1, 2, 3]. However, the computational costs of these algorithms are often not obvious to calculate, because the bit complexity depends on how much the representing multi-precision integers grow during the computation.