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Using Elimination Theory to construct Rigid Matrices Kumar, Abhinav Lokam, Satyanarayana V. Patankar, Vijay M. Sarma M. N., Jayalal Matrix Rigidity Lower Bounds Circuit Complexity The rigidity of a matrix $A$ for target rank $r$ is the minimum number of entries of $A$ that must be changed to ensure that the rank of the altered matrix is at most $r$. Since its introduction by Valiant \cite{Val77}, rigidity and similar rank-robustness functions of matrices have found numerous applications in circuit complexity, communication complexity, and learning complexity. Almost all $\nbyn$ matrices over an infinite field have a rigidity of $(n-r)^2$. It is a long-standing open question to construct infinite families of \emph{explicit} matrices even with superlinear rigidity when $r=\Omega(n)$. In this paper, we construct an infinite family of complex matrices with the largest possible, i.e., $(n-r)^2$, rigidity. The entries of an $\nbyn$ matrix in this family are distinct primitive roots of unity of orders roughly \SL{$\exp(n^4 \log n)$}. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first family of concrete (but not entirely explicit) matrices having maximal rigidity and a succinct algebraic description. Our construction is based on elimination theory of polynomial ideals. In particular, we use results on the existence of polynomials in elimination ideals with effective degree upper bounds (effective Nullstellensatz). Using elementary algebraic geometry, we prove that the dimension of the affine variety of matrices of rigidity at most $k$ is exactly $n^2 - (n-r)^2 +k$. Finally, we use elimination theory to examine whether the rigidity function is semicontinuous. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Abhinav Kumar and Satyanarayana V. Lokam and Vijay M. Patankar and Jayalal Sarma M. N. 2009 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 4, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (2009) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2327 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-23278 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2327 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode