Tags:Complexity, Isabelle/HOL and Lattice Basis Reduction
Abstract:
The LLL basis reduction algorithm was the first polynomial-time algorithm to compute a reduced basis of a given lattice, and hence also a short vector in the lattice. It thereby approximately solves an NP-hard problem. The algorithm has several applications in number theory, computer algebra and cryptography. Recently, the first mechanized soundness proof of the LLL algorithm has been developed in Isabelle/HOL. However, this proof did not include a formal statement of the algorithm's complexity. Furthermore, the resulting implementation was inefficient in practice. We address both of these shortcomings in this paper. First, we prove the correctness of a more efficient implementation of the LLL algorithm that uses only integer computations. Second, we formally prove statements on the polynomial running-time.
A Verified Efficient Implementation of the LLL Basis Reduction Algorithm