Factor Base Selection and Smoothness
Choosing the factor base for class group computation, the smoothness trade-off, and how base size interacts with the linear algebra.
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Factor Base. 7 pages.
Choosing the factor base for class group computation, the smoothness trade-off, and how base size interacts with the linear algebra.
Bounds on the norm of ideals needed to generate the class group, and why the conditional bound is what makes computation practical.
Choosing the factor base for the quadratic sieve, the quadratic residue criterion, and the multiplier.
Smooth numbers, the Dickman function, and how balancing smoothness probability against factor base size produces sub-exponential running times.
CFRAC: generating small quadratic residues from the continued fraction expansion, and the congruence-of-squares framework it established.
The general sub-exponential algorithm for class groups and units: factor base selection, ideal reduction, relation collection, the relation matrix and its kernel, and verificati…
CFRAC: generating small residues from the continued fraction expansion of the square root, smoothness testing, the linear algebra step, and its historical role as precursor to t…