Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász lattice basis reduction algorithm

The Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász (LLL) lattice basis reduction algorithm is a polynomial time lattice reduction algorithm invented by Arjen Lenstra, Hendrik Lenstra and László Lovász in 1982.[1] Given a basis with n-dimensional integer coordinates, for a lattice L (a discrete subgroup of Rn) with , the LLL algorithm calculates an LLL-reduced (short, nearly orthogonal) lattice basis in time

where is the largest length of under the Euclidean norm, that is, .[2][3]

The original applications were to give polynomial-time algorithms for factorizing polynomials with rational coefficients, for finding simultaneous rational approximations to real numbers, and for solving the integer linear programming problem in fixed dimensions.

LLL reduction

The precise definition of LLL-reduced is as follows: Given a basis

define its Gram–Schmidt process orthogonal basis

and the Gram-Schmidt coefficients

, for any .

Then the basis is LLL-reduced if there exists a parameter in (0.25,1] such that the following holds:

  1. (size-reduced) For . By definition, this property guarantees the length reduction of the ordered basis.
  2. (Lovász condition) For k = 2,3,..,n .

Here, estimating the value of the parameter, we can conclude how well the basis is reduced. Greater values of lead to stronger reductions of the basis. Initially, A. Lenstra, H. Lenstra and L. Lovász demonstrated the LLL-reduction algorithm for . Note that although LLL-reduction is well-defined for , the polynomial-time complexity is guaranteed only for in .

The LLL algorithm computes LLL-reduced bases. There is no known efficient algorithm to compute a basis in which the basis vectors are as short as possible for lattices of dimensions greater than 4.[4] However, an LLL-reduced basis is nearly as short as possible, in the sense that there are absolute bounds such that the first basis vector is no more than times as long as a shortest vector in the lattice, the second basis vector is likewise within of the second successive minimum, and so on.

Applications

An early successful application of the LLL algorithm was its use by Andrew Odlyzko and Herman te Riele in disproving Merten's conjecture.[5]

The LLL algorithm has found numerous other applications in MIMO detection algorithms[6] and cryptanalysis of public-key encryption schemes: knapsack cryptosystems, RSA with particular settings, NTRUEncrypt, and so forth. The algorithm can be used to find integer solutions to many problems.[7]

In particular, the LLL algorithm forms a core of one of the integer relation algorithms. For example, if it is believed that r=1.618034 is a (slightly rounded) root to an unknown quadratic equation with integer coefficients, one may apply LLL reduction to the lattice in spanned by and . The first vector in the reduced basis will be an integer linear combination of these three, thus necessarily of the form ; but such a vector is "short" only if a, b, c are small and is even smaller. Thus the first three entries of this short vector are likely to be the coefficients of the integral quadratic polynomial which has r as a root. In this example the LLL algorithm finds the shortest vector to be [1, -1, -1, 0.00025] and indeed has a root equal to the golden ratio, 1.6180339887....

Properties of LLL-reduced basis

Let be a -LLL-reduced basis of a lattice . From the definition of LLL-reduced basis, we can derive several other useful properties about .

  1. The first vector in the basis cannot be much larger than the shortest non-zero vector: . In particular, for , this gives .[8]
  2. The first vector in the basis is also bounded by the determinant of the lattice: . In particular, for , this gives .
  3. The product of the norms of the vectors in the basis cannot be much larger than the determinant of the lattice: let , then .

LLL algorithm pseudocode

The following description is based on (Hoffstein, Pipher & Silverman 2008, Theorem 6.68), with the corrections from the errata.[9]

INPUT
    a lattice basis 
    a parameter  with , most commonly 
PROCEDURE
      and do not normalize
       using the most current values of  and 
    
    while  do
        for  from  to  do
            if  then
                
               Update  and the related 's as needed.
               (The naive method is to recompute  whenever  changes:
                )
            end if
        end for
        if  then
            
        else
            Swap  and  
            Update  and the related 's as needed.
            
        end if
    end while
    return  the LLL reduced basis of 
OUTPUT
    the reduced basis 

Examples

Example from

Let a lattice basis , be given by the columns of

then the reduced basis is

,

which is size-reduced, satisfies the Lovász condition, and is hence LLL-reduced, as described above. See W. Bosma.[10] for details of the reduction process.

Example from

Likewise, for the basis over the complex integers given by the columns of the matrix below,

,

then the columns of the matrix below give an LLL-reduced basis.

.

Implementations

LLL is implemented in

  • Arageli as the function lll_reduction_int
  • fpLLL as a stand-alone implementation
  • GAP as the function LLLReducedBasis
  • Macaulay2 as the function LLL in the package LLLBases
  • Magma as the functions LLL and LLLGram (taking a gram matrix)
  • Maple as the function IntegerRelations[LLL]
  • Mathematica as the function LatticeReduce
  • Number Theory Library (NTL) as the function LLL
  • PARI/GP as the function qflll
  • Pymatgen as the function analysis.get_lll_reduced_lattice
  • SageMath as the method LLL driven by fpLLL and NTL
  • Isabelle/HOL in the 'archive of formal proofs' entry LLL_Basis_Reduction. This code exports to efficiently executable Haskell.[11]

See also

Notes

  1. Lenstra, A. K.; Lenstra, H. W., Jr.; Lovász, L. (1982). "Factoring polynomials with rational coefficients". Mathematische Annalen. 261 (4): 515–534. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.310.318. doi:10.1007/BF01457454. hdl:1887/3810. MR 0682664.
  2. Galbraith, Steven (2012). "chapter 17". Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography.
  3. Nguyen, Phong Q.; Stehlè, Damien (September 2009). "An LLL Algorithm with Quadratic Complexity". SIAM J. Comput. 39 (3): 874–903. doi:10.1137/070705702. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  4. Nguyen, Phong Q.; Stehlé, Damien (1 October 2009). "Low-dimensional lattice basis reduction revisited". ACM Transactions on Algorithms. 5 (4): 1–48. doi:10.1145/1597036.1597050.
  5. Odlyzko, Andrew; te Reile, Herman J. J. "Disproving Merten's Conjecture" (PDF). Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 357: 138–160. doi:10.1515/crll.1985.357.138. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  6. Shahabuddin, Shahriar et al., "A Customized Lattice Reduction Multiprocessor for MIMO Detection", in Arxiv preprint, January 2015.
  7. D. Simon (2007). "Selected applications of LLL in number theory" (PDF). LLL+25 Conference. Caen, France.
  8. Regev, Oded. "Lattices in Computer Science: LLL Algorithm" (PDF). New York University. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  9. Silverman, Joseph. "Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography Errata" (PDF). Brown University Mathematics Dept. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  10. Bosma, Wieb. "4. LLL" (PDF). Lecture notes. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
  11. Divasón, Jose. "A Formalization of the LLL Basis Reduction Algorithm". Conference paper. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

References

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