Title
Equivalence of Polynomial Identity Testing and Deterministic Multivariate Polynomial Factorization
Abstract
In this paper we show that the problem of deterministically factoring multivariate polynomials reduces to the problem of deterministic polynomial identity testing. Specifically, we show that given an arithmetic circuit (either explicitly or via black-box access) that computes a multivariate polynomial f, the task of computing arithmetic circuits for the factors of f can be solved deterministically, given a deterministic algorithm for the polynomial identity testing problem (we require either a white-box or a black-box algorithm, depending on the representation of f). Together with the easy observation that deterministic factoring implies a deterministic algorithm for polynomial identity testing, this establishes an equivalence between these two central derandomization problems of arithmetic complexity. Previously, such an equivalence was known only for multilinear circuits [SV10].
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CCC.2014.25
IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity
Keywords
DocType
Volume
polynomial identity testing, factoring, arithmetic circuits,circuit complexity,computational modeling,matrix decomposition,computer science,polynomials,logic gates,factoring,deterministic algorithm,testing
Journal
21
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1093-0159
9
0.57
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Swastik Kopparty138432.89
Shubhangi Saraf226324.55
Amir Shpilka3109564.27