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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.23
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171451
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Arvind, V. ; Chatterjee, Abhranil ; Mukhopadhyay, Partha

Black-Box Identity Testing of Noncommutative Rational Formulas of Inversion Height Two in Deterministic Quasipolynomial Time

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Abstract

Hrubeš and Wigderson [Hrubeš and Wigderson, 2015] initiated the complexity-theoretic study of noncommutative formulas with inverse gates. They introduced the Rational Identity Testing (RIT) problem which is to decide whether a noncommutative rational formula computes zero in the free skew field. In the white-box setting, there are deterministic polynomial-time algorithms due to Garg, Gurvits, Oliveira, and Wigderson [Ankit Garg et al., 2016] and Ivanyos, Qiao, and Subrahmanyam [Ivanyos et al., 2018].
A central open problem in this area is to design an efficient deterministic black-box identity testing algorithm for rational formulas. In this paper, we solve this for the first nested inverse case. More precisely, we obtain a deterministic quasipolynomial-time black-box RIT algorithm for noncommutative rational formulas of inversion height two via a hitting set construction. Several new technical ideas are involved in the hitting set construction, including concepts from matrix coefficient realization theory [Volčič, 2018] and properties of cyclic division algebras [T.Y. Lam, 2001]. En route to the proof, an important step is to embed the hitting set of Forbes and Shpilka for noncommutative formulas [Michael A. Forbes and Amir Shpilka, 2013] inside a cyclic division algebra of small index.

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@InProceedings{arvind_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.23,
  author =	{Arvind, V. and Chatterjee, Abhranil and Mukhopadhyay, Partha},
  title =	{{Black-Box Identity Testing of Noncommutative Rational Formulas of Inversion Height Two in Deterministic Quasipolynomial Time}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-249-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{245},
  editor =	{Chakrabarti, Amit and Swamy, Chaitanya},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/17145},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171451},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Rational Identity Testing, Black-box Derandomization, Cyclic Division Algebra, Matrix coefficient realization theory}
}

Keywords: Rational Identity Testing, Black-box Derandomization, Cyclic Division Algebra, Matrix coefficient realization theory
Collection: Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 15.09.2022

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