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TR02-071 | 6th June 2002 00:00

Non-approximability of the Permanent of Structured Matrices over Finite Fields

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TR02-071
Authors: Bruno Codenotti, Igor E. Shparlinski
Publication: 16th December 2002 04:08
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Abstract:

We show that for several natural classes of ``structured'' matrices, including symmetric, circulant, Hankel and Toeplitz matrices, approximating the permanent modulo a prime $p$ is as hard as computing the exact value. Results of this kind are well known for the class of arbitrary matrices; however the techniques used do not seem to apply to ``structured'' matrices. Our approach is based on recent advances in the hidden number problem introduced by Boneh and Venkatesan in 1996 combined with some bounds of exponential sums.



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