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An Improved Bound on Sums of Square Roots via the Subspace Theorem

Authors Friedrich Eisenbrand, Matthieu Haeberle, Neta Singer

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Friedrich Eisenbrand
  • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Matthieu Haeberle
  • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Neta Singer
  • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Friedrich Eisenbrand, Matthieu Haeberle, and Neta Singer. An Improved Bound on Sums of Square Roots via the Subspace Theorem. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 54:1-54:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.54

Abstract

The sum of square roots is as follows: Given x_1,… ,x_n ∈ ℤ and a₁,… ,a_n ∈ ℕ decide whether E = ∑_{i=1}^n x_i √{a_i} ≥ 0. It is a prominent open problem (Problem 33 of the Open Problems Project), whether this can be decided in polynomial time. The state-of-the-art methods rely on separation bounds, which are lower bounds on the minimum nonzero absolute value of E. The current best bound shows that |E| ≥ (n ⋅ max_i (|x_i| ⋅√{a_i})) ^{-2ⁿ}, which is doubly exponentially small. 
We provide a new bound of the form |E| ≥ γ ⋅ (n ⋅ max_i |x_i|)^{-2n} where γ is a constant depending on a₁,… ,a_n. This is singly exponential in n for fixed a_1,… ,a_n. The constant γ is not explicit and stems from the subspace theorem, a deep result in the geometry of numbers.

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
  • Theory of computation → Algebraic complexity theory
Keywords
  • Exact computing
  • Separation Bounds
  • Computational Geometry
  • Geometry of Numbers

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