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Conference Papers Year : 2004

Another view of the Gaussian algorithm

Abstract

We introduce here a rewrite system in the group of unimodular matrices, \emph{i.e.}, matrices with integer entries and with determinant equal to $\pm 1$. We use this rewrite system to precisely characterize the mechanism of the Gaussian algorithm, that finds shortest vectors in a two--dimensional lattice given by any basis. Putting together the algorithmic of lattice reduction and the rewrite system theory, we propose a new worst--case analysis of the Gaussian algorithm. There is already an optimal worst--case bound for some variant of the Gaussian algorithm due to Vallée \cite {ValGaussRevisit}. She used essentially geometric considerations. Our analysis generalizes her result to the case of the usual Gaussian algorithm. An interesting point in our work is its possible (but not easy) generalization to the same problem in higher dimensions, in order to exhibit a tight upper-bound for the number of iterations of LLL--like reduction algorithms in the worst case. Moreover, our method seems to work for analyzing other families of algorithms. As an illustration, the analysis of sorting algorithms are briefly developed in the last section of the paper.
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hal-00159666 , version 1 (04-07-2007)

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Ali Akhavi, Céline Moreira. Another view of the Gaussian algorithm. Latin American Informatics'04, Apr 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina. pp.474--487. ⟨hal-00159666⟩
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