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A modification of the LLL reduction algorithm. (English) Zbl 0629.10001
This paper gives a modification of the Lenstra, Lenstra, Lovasz algorithm (LLL) for finding a basis of “small” vectors in a lattice $$L\subset {\mathbb{R}}^ n$$. In the original LLL algorithm it is assumed that L is given by a set of basic vectors. The modified algorithm can also deal with the case that L is given by a set of generating vectors, that are not necessarily independent. In fact, if the generators are not independent, the algorithm first computes a set of basic vectors for L and in a second run a basis that contains small vectors of L is computed.
The modification given here extends proposals of other authors for computing the basis, using the LLL algorithm. The basic idea for the modification is to see the given lattice L as a projection of a lattice L’ in a higher dimensional space $${\mathbb{R}}^{n+m}$$. In fact the given generators are projections of a set of basic vectors of L’. By the LLL algorithm a basis $${\mathcal B}$$ of L’ is computed. If the lattice L’ is chosen in the right way, the projection of L to L’ maps $${\mathcal B}$$ onto a basis of L. Several elements of $${\mathcal B}$$ may map to $${\mathfrak O}$$, in which case they represent nontrivial relations between the given generators of L.
The problem of choosing the right lattice L’ is such that its basic vectors should have a very small component in the new dimensions $${\mathbb{R}}^ m$$. This is solved by the author by giving the space $${\mathbb{R}}^{n+m}$$ a different metric than usual. In fact, the distances in the extra dimensions are infinitesimally small in comparison to the distances in the original dimensions.
Reviewer: F.van der Linden

##### MSC:
 11-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to number theory 11H06 Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) 68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity 90C10 Integer programming
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